A bit of May 19th history…
1536 - Ann Boleyn, 2nd wife to King Henry VIII, is beheaded on charges of adultery, incest, and treason
1883 - William “Buffalo Bill” Cody opens Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Omaha, Nebraska (pictured)
1900 - World’s longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) linking Italy and Switzerland opens
1919 - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk lands at Samsun on the Black Sea coast, beginning Turkish War of Independence
2011 - Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, project to search for dark matter, is installed on the International Space Station
Today In History: May 19, 2021 at 05:01AM