FRIDAY, May 19, 2023

On this day...

1884-Ringling Brothers circus premieres

1929-General Feng Yu-xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-shek Government

1934-Military coup by Colonel Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria

1939-Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact

1943-Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)

1951-U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea

1960-Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed

1967-U.S. bombs Hanoi

1967-USSR ratifies treaty with England & US banning nuclear weapons in space

1982-Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion

1994-Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack

1994-Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center

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