29 Ordibehesht 1402

Events

• 1542 (484 years ago) The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Myanmar.
• 1780 (246 years ago) New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, is observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
• 1950 (76 years ago) A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
• 1986 (40 years ago) The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
• 2012 (14 years ago) A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
• 2016 (10 years ago) EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while traveling from Paris to Cairo, killing all on board.
• 2024 (2 years ago) A helicopter crash in Iran leaves 8 people dead, including the country's president Ebrahim Raisi & foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

Births

• 1762 (264 years ago) Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (died 1814)
• 1881 (145 years ago) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (official birthday), Turkish field marshal and statesman, 1st President of Turkey (died 1938)
• 1890 (136 years ago) Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (died 1969)
• 1925 (101 years ago) Malcolm X, American minister and activist (died 1965)
• 1925 (101 years ago) Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 1998)
• 1977 (49 years ago) Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer-songwriter and actress
• 1979 (47 years ago) Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 (47 years ago) Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer

Deaths

• 1296 (730 years ago) Pope Celestine V,
• 1536 (490 years ago) Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of England (1533–1536); second wife of Henry VIII
• 1825 (201 years ago) Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher and theorist (born 1760)
• 1864 (162 years ago) Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (born 1804)
• 1895 (131 years ago) José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (born 1853)
• 1898 (128 years ago) William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1809)
• 1935 (91 years ago) T. E. Lawrence, British colonel and archaeologist (born 1888)
• 1994 (32 years ago) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1929)

All 374 events, births and deaths of May 19