Today is Monday, May 19, the 139th day of 2025. There are 226 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On May 19, 2018, Britain\u2019s Prince Harry wed American actor Meghan Markle in St. George\u2019s Chapel at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England\u2019s King Henry VIII, was beheaded at the Tower of London after being convicted of adultery.<\/p>\n
In 1883, William Cody held the first of his \u201cBuffalo Bill\u2019s Wild West\u201d shows in Omaha, Nebraska.<\/p>\n
In 1920, ten people were killed in a gun battle between coal miners, who were led by a local police chief, and a group of private security guards hired to evict them for joining a union in Matewan, West Virginia.<\/p>\n
In 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.<\/p>\n
In 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, where the two leaders agreed on May 1, 1944, as the date for the D-Day invasion of France (expansion plans for the invasion caused the date of the landing to be delayed by a month).<\/p>\n
In 1962, film star Marilyn Monroe sang \u201cHappy Birthday to You\u201d to President John F. Kennedy during a Democratic fundraiser at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays: TV personality David Hartman is 90. Musician-composer Pete Townshend (The Who) is 80. Singer-actor Grace Jones is 77. Former racing driver Dario Franchitti is 52. Basketball Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett is 49. Country musician-producer Shooter Jennings is 46. Comedian-actor Michael Che is 42. Singer Sam Smith is 33. Media personality-singer JoJo Siwa is 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Monday, May 19, the 139th day of 2025. There are 226 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[77,2348,2843,603,12,5105,7710,519,448,6417,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-114054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-national-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-royal","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-royals","17":"tag-things-to-do","18":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114533955220809018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}