On May 19:
- 1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.
- 1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (daughter of Anne Boleyn) arrested Mary, Queen of Scots.
- 1848 - Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ending the Mexican-American War and ceding large tracts of land to the United States.
- 1921 - The Emergency Quota Act passed the United States Congress establishing national quotas on immigration to the United States.
- 1925 - Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) is born, as Malcolm Little. He would go on to become a prominent leader of disaffected blacks in the United States in the 1950s and 60s
On May 19:
- 1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.
- 1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (daughter of Anne Boleyn) arrested Mary, Queen of Scots.
- 1848 - Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ending the Mexican-American War and ceding large tracts of land to the United States.
- 1921 - The Emergency Quota Act passed the United States Congress establishing national quotas on immigration to the United States.
- 1925 - Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) is born, as Malcolm Little. He would go on to become a prominent leader of disaffected blacks in the United States in the 1950s and 60s