On this day in history - Today, May, 19

Today in History

• 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 bec

• 1962 Marilyn Monroe performs her famous rendition of Happy Birthday

  Monroe gave her sultry performance, which was to be her last, at a party for U.S. President John F.

• 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 “Vietc

• 1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk sets off the Turkish War of Independence

  The fight against the allies of the Triple Entente ended some four years later. The Republic of Turk

• 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