WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010

Today is Wednesday, May 19, the 139th day of 2010. There are 226 days left in the year.

1568 _ English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary

1848 _ Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war

1928 _ 51 frogs enter first annual ``Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Calif.)

1943 _ Berlin is declared ``Judenrien" (free of Jews)

1943 _ Churchill pledges England's full support to U.S. against Japan

1951 _ U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea

1967 _ USSR ratifies treaty with England and U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space

1975 _ Junko Tabei is first woman to climb to the top of Mt. Everest

1982 _ Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion

1995 _ World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai