On This Very Day
May 19th
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- 2022
Mercedes sells world's most expensive car, a 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe, for $142 million View Post →
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- 1884
Ringling Brothers circus makes its premiere View Post →
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- 1885
First mass production of shoes by Jan Matzeliger's Consolidated Lasting Machine Company
- 1921
US Congress passes Emergency Quota Act, restricting immigration to 3% of existing population
- 1743
Jean-Pierre Christin develops Celsius temperature scale with 100° boiling point and 0° freezing point
- 1919
Kelud volcano erupts on Java, killing 5,160 people
- 1971
USSR launches Mars 2, first spacecraft to crash land on Mars
- 2016
EgyptAir flight MS804 disappears over the Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo
- 1536
Anne Boleyn executed at the Tower of London for alleged adultery, incest, and treason
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