Today is Saturday, May 19, the 140th day of 2012. 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
1885 ― First mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Mass.)
1928 ― Fifty-one frogs enter first annual ``Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Calif.)
1943 ― Churchill pledges England's full support to U.S. against Japan
1951 ― U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea
1958 ― Premiere of Harold Pinter's ``Birthday Party" in London
1967 ― U.S. bombs Hanoi
1979 ― Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
1995 ― World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai