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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_19" title="May 19">May 19</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemoration_of_Atat%C3%BCrk,_Youth_and_Sports_Day" title="Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day">Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day</a></b> in Turkey (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1655" title="1655">1655</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1654%E2%80%931660)" title="Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)">Anglo-Spanish War</a>: England <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Jamaica" title="Invasion of Jamaica">invaded</a></b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Santiago" title="Colony of Santiago">Spanish Jamaica</a>, capturing it a week later.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1743" title="1743">1743</a> – French physicist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Christin" title="Jean-Pierre Christin">Jean-Pierre Christin</a> published the design of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-in-glass_thermometer" title="Mercury-in-glass thermometer">mercury thermometer</a> using the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius" title="Celsius">centigrade scale</a></b>, with 0 representing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_point" title="Melting point">melting point</a> of water and 100 its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_point" title="Boiling point">boiling point</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1828" title="1828">1828</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">United States Congress</a> passed <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_Abominations" title="Tariff of Abominations">the largest tariff in the nation's history</a></b>, which resulted in severe economic hardship in the American South.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915" title="1915">1915</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>: Australian and New Zealand troops repelled the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_attack_on_Anzac_Cove" title="Third attack on Anzac Cove">third attack on Anzac Cove</a></b>, inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking Ottoman forces.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018" title="2018">2018</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_Harry_and_Meghan_Markle" title="Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle">The wedding</a></b> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex" title="Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex">Prince Harry</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan,_Duchess_of_Sussex" title="Meghan, Duchess of Sussex">Meghan Markle</a> took place at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s_Chapel,_Windsor_Castle" title="St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle">St George's Chapel</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Castle" title="Windsor Castle">Windsor Castle</a>, England.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcuin" title="Alcuin">Alcuin</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 804); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Vignon" title="Claude Vignon">Claude Vignon</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1593); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Ephron" title="Nora Ephron">Nora Ephron</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1941); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gorton" title="John Gorton">John Gorton</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2002)</p>
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