May 19th
Today in America's Present Past
1777 | Founder Button Gwinnett died.
1795 | Founder Josiah Bartlett died.
1828 | POTUS: President Adams signs the Tariff of 1828.
1842 | Dorr’s Rebellion
1858 | Marais des Cygnes massacre.
1864 | Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne died.
1883 | Entertainer William “Buffalo Bill” Cody opens Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska.
1891 | Rice University is formed.
1906 | The Boys Club of America is formed.
1917 | Attorney Belva Ann Lockwood died.
1921 | SCOTUS: Chief Justice Edward Douglass White died.
1925 | Activist Malcolm X was born.
1946 | Wrestler Andre the Giant was born.
1946 | Author Booth Tarkington died.
1956 | Actor Steven Ford was born in East Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1992 | The 27th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified.
1994 | POTUS: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died.