1568
May 19, Defeated by the Protestants, Mary, Queen of Scots, fled to England where Queen Elizabeth imprisoned her.

1962
May 19, Marilyn Monroe sang "Happy Birthday" to Pres. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden while wearing a dress described as "skin and beads." In 1999 the dress sold for $1.15 million at Christie's auction house.

1972
May 19, Kathy Boudin and BernardineDohrn, members of the Weathermen, set explosives in bathroom of the US Pentagon. [See Oct 20,1981]

1974
May 19, Valeri Giscard d'Estaing won French presidential elections.
(SFEC, 11/12/00, p.D4)(www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-008.html)


1982
May 19, Sophia Loren (b.1934) began serving 18 days in an Italian prison for failing to pay her taxes.


1992
May 19, In Massapequa, New York, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by teen-ager Amy Fisher (17), who claimed to be having an affair with Mrs. Buttafuoco's husband, Joey, an allegation the Buttafuoco's denied. Joey later pleaded guilty to 3rd degree rape and admitted to the affair. In 1998 Mr. Buttafuoco planned to premier a TV show on public cable access for “people jammed up in the media." Fisher was later dubbed "the Long Island Lolita" and served 7 years of a 15 year sentence.


2003
May 19, A Palestinian riding a bicycle blew himself up near an Israeli army jeep. A femalesuicide bomber detonated at the entrance to a shopping mall in Afula and killed 3 others in the 5th suicide bombing in 48 hours.



2004
May 19, Sonia Gandhi announced that her Congress party had elected economist Manmohan Singh (71) as the next prime minister of India.


2004
May 19, AntoninaPresnyakova, Russian Ebola researcher, died following an accidental needle stick containing the deadly virus. She worked at the Vektor State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology outside Novosibirsk in central Siberia.


2010
May 19, The French government decided to impose a $185 fine on women who wear a full-face Islamic veil in public. The legislation was forwarded to Parliament.


2010
May 19, Mexican police found the mummified bodies of two women and three men stuffed in plastic bags in a pickup truck left near a highway in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua. University authorities in Ciudad Juarez also reported that a freshman had been found dead, wrapped in a blanket at a local fairground. Authorities said about 88 tons (80 metric tons) of a precursor chemical used to make methamphetamines had been seized at the Pacific Coast seaport of Manzanillo.

2013
May 19, Tunisian feminist Amina Tyler (19), who scandalized her country by posting topless photos of herself online, was arrested after allegedly sneaking into Tunisia's holiest city disguised in a veil, then trying to get undressed during a protest.