MAY 19, 2020
Today is:
| Boys and Girls Club Day
Dinosaur Day National Devils Food Cake Day |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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HO CHI MINH (1890-1969) — Vietnamese politician and revolutionary. First president of socialist Vietnam. |
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MALCOLM X (1925-1965) — American Muslim minister & civil and human rights activist. |
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PETER MAYHEW (1944-2019) — English-American actor. Most famous for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars films and media from 1977-2015. |
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ANDRE THE GIANT (1946-1993) — French professional wrestler and actor. (The Princess Bride) |
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JODI PICOULT (1966) — American novelist (My Sister’s Keeper, Nineteen Minutes) |
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SAM SMITH (1992) — English singer-songwriter. |
TODAY IN HISTORY
| 1743 – French physicist Jean-Pierre Christin first publishes his centigrade temperature scale, with 0 as the freezing point of water and 100 its boiling point (the reverse of that developed by Andres Celsius). |  |
| 1921 – The US Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act, placing for the first time limits on the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States. |  |
| 1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King, Jr’s “A Letter from a Birmingham Jail“, written on April 16, 1963. |  |
