Template:Selected anniversaries/May 19

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  1883: Signed copy of interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.

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  1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.

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  1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).

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  1964: Publication of The Hal Jordan Playbook linked to outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.