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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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User:Pern
NOTE: Today: May 19
On this day...
May 19
:
Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day
in Turkey (
1919
)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
1655
–
Anglo-Spanish War
: England
invaded
Spanish Jamaica
, capturing it a week later.
1743
– French physicist
Jean-Pierre Christin
published the design of a
mercury thermometer
using the
centigrade scale
, with 0 representing the
melting point
of water and 100 its
boiling point
.
1828
– The
United States Congress
passed
the largest tariff in the nation's history
, which resulted in severe economic hardship in the American South.
1915
–
First World War
: Australian and New Zealand troops repelled the
third attack on Anzac Cove
, inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking Ottoman forces.
2018
–
The wedding
of
Prince Harry
and
Meghan Markle
(both pictured)
took place at
St George's Chapel
in
Windsor Castle
, England.
Alcuin
(
d.
804)
Claude Vignon
(
b.
1593)
Nora Ephron
(
b.
1941)
John Gorton
(
d.
2002)
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