Today is Thursday, May 19, the 140th day of 2016. There are 226 days left in the year.
On this date:
In A.D. 715, Pope Gregory II assumed the papacy.
In 1780, a mysterious darkness enveloped much of New England and part of Canada in the early afternoon.
In 1924, the Marx Brothers made their Broadway debut in the revue “I’ll Say She Is.”
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In 1973, Secretariat won the Preakness Stakes, the second of his Triple Crown victories.
In 1994, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York at age 64.
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