Today is Tuesday, May 19, the 139th day of 2009. There are 226 days left in the year.
1568 _ English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary
1780 _ About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day its cause is still unexplained
1848 _ Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war
1950 _ New York Times reports of world's smallest and dumbest mechanical brain
1951 _ U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea
1964 _ U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy
1967 _ USSR ratifies treaty with England and U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space
1967 _ U.S. bombs Hanoi
1979 _ Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
1993 _ Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for first time (3,500.03)