WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY MAY 19

PHOTO CREDITS- WIKIPEDIA/INTERNET ARCHIVE

1967 U.S. planes bomb Hanoi for the first time.

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1964 U.S. diplomats find at least 40 microphones planted in the American embassy in Moscow.

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1963 Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail is published

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1962 Marilyn Monroe performs her famous rendition of Happy Birthday

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1959 The North Vietnamese Army begins organizing the Ho Chi Minh trail

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1941 Nora Ephron, screenwriter and director.

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1941 Jane Brody, food and health writer.

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1935 The National Football League adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936.

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1934 James Lehrer, broadcast journalist.

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1925 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), African-American activist.

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1921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system.

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1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk sets off the Turkish War of Independence

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