Daily Calendar - May 19

The 139th day of the year, 226 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

St. Righteous Job the Many-Passed (c. 2000-1500 BC); Martyrs: Barbara, Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysus (c. 362); Martyr Barbara the Slayer.

Born:

1593 _ Jacob Jordanes, Flemish painter. Died in 1678.

1873 - Irodion Evdoshvili, Georgian poet-revolutionary.

1939 _ Konstantine Vardeli, musician, Rustaveli Prize laureate.

Died:

1825 _ Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, French, socialist-utopian.

1864 _ Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer.

1912 _ Bolesław Prus, Polish writer.

1935 _ Thomas Edward Lawrence, English writer, classicist, archaeologist.

Events:

1712 _ Peter I moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

1802 _ The highest award of France, the Order of the Legion of Honor, was established at the initiative of Napoleon.

1923 – Participants in the anti-Bolshevik conspiracy were sentenced to death, including the chairman of the National Democratic Party, General Kote Abkhaz.

1947 _ The Rustavi Metallurgical Plant was put into operation.

1977 - The United States and the Soviet Union signed an agreement on the peaceful use of outer space.

2024 - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a plane crash.

Memorable days:

Turkey - Youth and Sports Day.

Finland - Remembrance Day.

Ukraine - Science Day.

Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh Day.