Year 1536
Anne Boleyn, the wife of King Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.
MAY 19
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19 May: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 19 May.
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Year 1743
Jean-Pierre Christine developed a centigrade temperature scale.
Year 1796
Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds.
Year 1892
Noted playwright and poet Oscar Wilde were released from prison.
Year 1926
Benito Mussolini declared Italy a fascist nation.
Year 1953
State to control production and distribution of minerals involved in atomic energy development.
Year 1954
The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board.
Year 1956
The Indian govt. bans six U.S. and two British films for presenting a 'disparaging' impression of life in Africa, including 'African Queen' and 'Mogambo' at New Delhi.
Year 1971
Indian Navy's first submarine station started at 'Veer Bahu' in Visakhapatanam.
Year 1982
Elections for Assemblies held in West Bengal, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala.
Year 1991
About 20 crore voters go to the polls in the first phase of election in 204 constituencies of the 10th Lok Sabha.
Year 1992
Arjuna award for Tennis star Leander Paes and Hockey champion Jagbir Singh.
Year 1993
Government decides to merge Vayudut with Indian Airlines.
Born 1824
Nana Saheb Peshwa II, an Indian Peshwa of the Maratha empire.
Born 1908
Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born.
Born 1910
Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.
Born 1911
K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
Born 1913
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, the sixth President of India.
Born 1925
Malcolm X, an African American human rights activist.
Born 1934
Ruskin Bond, an Indian author of British descent.
Born 1938
Girish Karnad, an Indian actor, and film director.
Born 1974
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, an Indian actor
Died 1984
Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
Died 1951
Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away.
Died 1958
Sir Jadunath Sarkar, an Indian historian.
Died 1979
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, a Hindi novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic, and scholar.
Died 1980
Dr Ramashankar Shukla 'Rasal', a famous writer, passed away.
Died 1980
T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away.
Died 1995
Vinay Chandra Maudgalya, an Indian classical musician.
Died 1997
Sombhu Mitra, an Indian film and stage actor, director, and playwright.
Died 1999
Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist. He is the father of famous cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.
Died 2008
Vijay Tendulkar, a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator.