On This Day:
Monday May 19, 2014 This is the 139th day of the year, with 226 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Seven Sages In Greek tradition, the Seven Sages or Seven Wise Men were a group of ancient Greek sages of the 7th and 6th centuries BC. They are also called Sophoi. The first listing of them was by Plato in his Protagoras. A widely used list includes the following: Bias of Priene, Chilon of Sparta, Cleobulus of Lindos, Periander of Corinth, Pittacus of Mitylene, Solon of Athens, and Thales of Miletus. These men served Greece as rulers, lawgivers, and advisers and were reputed to have written many popular maxims.
Holidays Feast day of St. Dunstan, St. Pudentiana, St. Peter Celestine, Saints Calocerus and Parthenius, St. Ivo of Kermartin, St. Crispin of Viterbo, and St. Peter Morrone.
Turkey: Youth and Sports Day.
Events 1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier set sail for North America.
1588 - The Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon on a mission to secure control of the English Channel and transport a Spanish invasion army to Britain from the Netherlands.
1602 - Martha's Vineyard was first sighted by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold.
1643 - The Confederation of New England was formed by Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay.
1649 - England was declared a Commonwealth.
1749 - King George II of England granted the Ohio Company a charter of several hundred thousand acres of land on the Ohio River, thereby promoting westward settlement by colonists from Virginia; this directly challenged the French claim to Ohio and was a direct cause of the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754.
1780 - Midday near-total darkness struck New England. No scientific explanation was ever verified.
1846 - The first steamship arrived in Hawaii.
1884 - The Ringling Brothers Circus first performed.
1898 - Postcards were first authorized by the U.S. Post Office.
1900 - The world's longest railroad tunnel, the 12-mile-long Simplon Tunnel linking Switzerland to Italy through the Alps, opened.
1906 - The Federated Boys' Clubs organization, forerunner of the Boys' Clubs of America, was established.
1914 - The Greyhound Bus Company was founded.
1935 - The National Football League adopted an annual college draft to begin in 1936.
1958 - The United States and Canada formally established the North American Air Defense Command.
1967 - The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space.
1996 - A large asteroid came within 281,000 miles of the Earth.
2005 - "Revenge of the Sith," the final chapter of the "Star Wars" adventure series, opened in movie theaters.
Births 1890 - Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen That Thanh), North Vietnamese leader, founder of Indochina Community Party.
1895 - Johns Hopkins, American merchant and philanthropist.
1925 - Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), American black nationalist and civil rights activist.
1945 - Pete Townshend, English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer.
1952 - Joey Ramone (born Jeffry Ross Hyman), American musician.
Deaths 1935 - "Lawrence of Arabia" (T.E. Lawrence) died in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
1971 - Ogden Nash, American poet best known for writing pithy light verse.
1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American former First Lady.
1998 - Uno Sosuke, Japanese politician and the 75th Prime Minister of Japan.
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