What happened on 19 May?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1890 Born: Ho Chi Minh Vietnamese revolutionary who led the struggle against France and the United States.
2. 1919 Mustafa Kemal lands at Samsun Sent by the occupied Ottoman government to demobilise the Anatolian armies, the hero of Gallipoli steps ashore at Samsun and does the opposite: he begins organising the national re
3. 1536 Execution of Anne Boleyn Henry VIII's second wife beheaded at the Tower on charges of treason and adultery; cleared the way for Jane Seymour.
4. 1635 France enters the Thirty Years' War Richelieu declares war on Spain, swinging the Thirty Years War decisively against the Habsburgs.
5. 1974 Giscard d'Estaing elected president of France A narrow win over Mitterrand brings a liberalising centrist to the Élysée; the voting age drops to eighteen and divorce law is loosened.
6. 1643 Battle of Rocroi Young Duc d'Enghien crushes the previously invincible Spanish tercios; symbolic end of Spanish military supremacy.
7. 1925 Born: Malcolm X African-American minister and human-rights leader; assassinated in 1965.