blob: 60dd456d6287a7822010333bde1f56edf0b56c3b (
plain) (
blame)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
|
<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>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanja_Matsuri" title="Sanja Matsuri">Sanja Matsuri</a></b> begins in Tokyo, Japan (2023)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776">1776</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> garrison west of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> surrendered to British troops at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Cedars" title="Battle of the Cedars">Battle of the Cedars</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1845" title="1845">1845</a> – Captain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin" title="John Franklin">John Franklin</a> departed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhithe" title="Greenhithe">Greenhithe</a>, England, on <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition" title="Franklin's lost expedition">an expedition</a></b> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Canada" title="Northern Canada">Canadian Arctic</a> in search of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage" title="Northwest Passage">Northwest Passage</a>; all 129 men were later lost when their ships became icebound in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Strait" title="Victoria Strait">Victoria Strait</a>.</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/1991" title="1991">1991</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia" title="Breakup of Yugoslavia">Breakup of Yugoslavia</a>: With <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbs_of_Croatia" title="Serbs of Croatia">the local Serb population</a> boycotting the referendum, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Croatian_independence_referendum" title="1991 Croatian independence referendum">Croatians voted in favour of independence</a></b> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia" title="Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015" title="2015">2015</a> – A corroded pipeline near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugio_State_Beach" title="Refugio State Beach">Refugio State Beach</a>, California, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugio_oil_spill" title="Refugio oil spill">spilled 142,800 gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil</a></b> onto the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaviota_Coast" title="Gaviota Coast">Gaviota Coast</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunstan" title="Dunstan">Dunstan</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 988); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariam-uz-Zamani" title="Mariam-uz-Zamani">Mariam-uz-Zamani</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1623); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Phillips" title="Erin Phillips">Erin Phillips</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1985)</p>
|
