Daily Almanac: May 19, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 6:27 a.m.
SET: 9:01 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 80 °F
LOW: 54 °F

Today is…

• Accounting Day
• Jerusalem Day
• NASCAR Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1963 Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is published. King used the open letter to defend his nonviolent resistance against racism and segregation. It became one of the central texts for the civil rights movement in the United States.
• 1959 The North Vietnamese Army begins organizing the Ho Chi Minh trail. According to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the system of supply routes used by the “Vietcong” was “one of the greatest achievements of military engineering of the 20th century.”
• 1743 Jean-Pierre Christin invents the Celsius thermometer. The centigrade temperature scale, which is based on the freezing and boiling point of water, is used by most countries around the world. Exceptions include the United State, Belize, and Palau.

Births On This Day:

• 1945 Pete Townshend
English singer-songwriter, guitarist
• 1925 Malcolm X

American minister, activist

Deaths On This Day:

• 1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
37th First Lady of the United States
• 1536 Anne Boleyn
English wife of Henry VIII of England