Daily Calendar for Saturday, May 19, 2029

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Saturday, May 19, 2029

Died

  • Anne Boleyn (Henry VIII’s second wife)
  • Robert B. Thomas (founder of The Old Farmer’s Almanac)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne (writer)
  • T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia”“)
  • Ogden Nash (poet)
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (U.S. First Lady)
  • Walter Lord (author)
  • Charles Grodin (actor, talk show host)

Born

  • Johns Hopkins (philanthropist)
  • Carl Akeley (artist, biologist, & conservationist)
  • Malcolm X (civil rights activist)
  • Lorraine Hansberry (playwright)
  • Francis Richard Scobee (astronaut)
  • Nora Ephron (author & director)
  • Pete Townshend (musician)
  • Andre the Giant (wrestler & actor)
  • Jodi Picoult (author)
  • Kevin Garnett (basketball player)
  • Connor Wong (baseball player)

Events

  • Dark Day in New England
  • Author Oscar Wilde released from jail
  • Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, was established as part of the Department of the Interior.
  • First Jumping Frog Jubilee in Calaveras County, California
  • 7.1-magnitude earthquake occurred in Imperial Valley, California
  • Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester threw a no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals. It was the first major league no-hitter of the season
  • In Kansas, paraplegic Anna Sarol — with the assistance of braces, a walker, and her siblings — took steps across the graduation stage to receive her high school diploma. She had worked towards this moment ever since a gymnastics accident nearly four years before had left her paralyzed from the waist down.

Weather

  • Dark Day: Darkness fell at noon throughout New England due to smoke from western forest fires.
  • 99 degrees F at Central Park, New York City
  • Heavy rain and golf ball-size hail destroyed 80 percent of the crops in northwestern Texas