THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2011

Today is Thursday, May 19, the 139th day of 2011. There are 226 days left in the year.

1568 ― English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary

1571 ― Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manila in the Philippines

1780 ― About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day its cause is still unexplained

1885 ― First mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Mass.)

1885 ― German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland

1921 ― Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system

1939 ― Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact

1951 ― U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea

1979 ― Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd

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