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Events on May 19

• 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of the English King Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I, is executed at Tower Green in the Tower of London for alleged adultery, incest with her brother George, and treason.
• 1802 First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the Legion of Honour, France's highest order of merit, with the intention of rewarding military and civic merit, outstanding talents, and great virtues.
• 1849 The Neue Rheinische Zeitung, published by Karl Marx in Cologne, ceases publication after the failure of the March Revolution in the Prussian Rhine Province.
• 1906 The Simplon Tunnel, built by the engineers Karl Brandau and Alfred Brandt for the successor company of the Jura-Simplon Railway, the Swiss Federal Railways, is inaugurated in Brig.
• 1938 The Mannheim Ice and Roller Sports Club, record champions of the German Ice Hockey League as Adler Mannheim, is founded.
• 1962 At a birthday gala for U.S. President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in New York, Marilyn Monroe makes her final public appearance. On the occasion of his birthday, the actress sings Happy Birthday, Mr. President.
• 1969 After Peter Altmaier's resignation on the previous day, Helmut Kohl (CDU) becomes Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate.
• 1983 At the request of the SPD, the German Bundestag establishes an investigative committee into the Flick donations affair, whose work will last two years. The committee chair is Manfred Langner of the CDU.
• 1993 The SPD politician Heide Simonis is elected Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein as the successor to Björn Engholm. She is the first female head of a state government in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 2004 The Munich Regional Court I becomes the first court in the world to confirm the legal validity of the GNU General Public License.
• 2009 A research team led by the Norwegian paleontologist Jørn H. Hurum publishes the first description of the recently rediscovered extinct primate genus Darwinius from the Messel Pit near Darmstadt. The described individual “Ida” is regarded as the best-preserved fossil of a primate.
• 2012 The 2012 UEFA Champions League final between FC Chelsea and FC Bayern Munich takes place in Munich. FC Chelsea wins the match 4:3 after a penalty shootout.

Born on May 19

• 1881 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Ottoman-Turkish politician
• 1885 Paul Bildt, German actor
• 1890 Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician
• 1901 Otto Ambros, German chemist, convicted war criminal and armaments industry leader
• 1942 Alexandra, German singer
• 1951 Joey Ramone, American singer
• 1960 Daniel Glattauer, Austrian writer
• 1962 Uli Borowka, German footballer
• 1981 Sina Schielke, German track and field athlete
• 1981 Felix Zwayer, German football referee

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „19. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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