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