"Today in History: May 19th Through the Years"

[!CDATA[Today is May 19, 2025, marking the 139th day of the year with 226 days remaining. On this day in history, a tragic gun battle in 1920 resulted in the deaths of ten coal miners in Matewan, West Virginia. In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded for adultery. William Cody launched his famous "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show in Omaha in 1883. President Warren G. Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921 to regulate immigration quotas. In 1943, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt set the date for the D-Day invasion. Marilyn Monroe serenaded President John F. Kennedy in 1962, and Prince Harry married Meghan Markle in 2018.]]