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May 19: On This Day in History

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On This Day in History

May 19, 2020

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1536  Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason

1643  Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form the United Colonies of New England

1649  England is declared a Commonwealth by an act of the Rump Parliament making England a republic for the next 11 years

1885  German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland

1898  US Congress passes the Private Mailing Card Act, allowing private publishers and printers to produce postcards, had to be labelled "Private Mailing Cards" until 1901, known as "souvenir cards"

1919  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Black Sea coast, beginning the Turkish War of Independence

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