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Today in History: May 19
1536 Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, is beheaded on Tower Green.

1568 Defeated by the Protestants, Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England where Queen Elizabeth imprisons her.

1588 The Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal.

1780 Near total darkness descends on New England at noon. No explanation is found.

1964 U.S. diplomats find at least 40 microphones planted in the American embassy in Moscow.

1967 U.S. planes bomb Hanoi for the first time.

1995 Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time

2018 American actress Meghan Markle marries Prince Harry at a ceremony in Windsor Castle, making her a member of the British royal family

2021 New York City begins re-opening after 423 days (March 2020) with the COVID-19 death toll at 33,000

2022 Mercedes confirms the sale of world's most expensive car - a 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe for €135 million ($142 million)

2161 Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun


Born on May 19
1890 Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen That Thanh), Vietnamese nationalist and political leader.

1895 Johns Hopkins, merchant and philanthropist.

1925 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), African-American activist.

JOTD
A United States Marine was deployed to Afghanistan.

A United States Marine was deployed to Afghanistan.
While he was there he received a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend.
In the letter she explained that she had slept with two guys while he had been gone and she wanted to break up with him. To add injury to the insult, she said she wanted back the picture of herself that she had given him.
So the Marine did what any squared-away Marine would do. He went around to his buddies and collected all the unwanted photos of women he could find. In all, he got more than 25 pictures of various women (some with clothes and some without).
He then mailed them to his now-former girlfriend with the following note: "I don't remember which one you are. Please remove your picture and send the rest back."


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