So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

May 19th


- Christian Feast Day
- Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus)
- Greek Genocide Remembrance Day (Greece)
- H? Chí Minh's Birthday (Vietnam)
- World Hepatitis Day (International)

May 19th


- 1991 - Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
- 1971 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
- 1962 - A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of Happy Birthday.
- 1961 - Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
- 1950 - A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
- 1943 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
- 1922 - The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
- 1921 - The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
- 1919 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is also regarded as a date of remembrance for Pontic Greeks on the Greek genocide.
- 1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
- 1864 - American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
- 1848 - Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for $15 million USD.
- 1828 - U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
- 1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Légion d'Honneur.
- 1780 - New England's Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
- 1749 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
- 1649 - An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
- 1643 - Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
- 1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- 1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
- 1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
- 1499 - Catherine of Aragon, is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.

May 19th


- 1991 - Jordan Pruitt, American singer
- 1988 - Lily Cole, English model and actress
- 1987 - David Edgar, Canadian footballer
- 1987 - Mariano Torres, Argentine footballer
- 1986 - Mario Chalmers, American basketball player
- 1986 - Eric Lloyd, American actor
- 1985 - Chris Loudon, Scottish darts player
- 1984 - Marcedes Lewis, American football player
- 1983 - Eve Angel, Hungarian pornographic actress
- 1983 - Jessica Fox, English actress
- 1982 - Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
- 1982 - Pĺl Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
- 1981 - Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor
- 1981 - Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer
- 1981 - Georges St. Pierre, Canadian mixed martial artist
- 1981 - Michael Leighton, Canadian hockey player
- 1980 - Drew Fuller, American actor and model
- 1980 - Tony Hackworth, English footballer
- 1979 - Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
- 1979 - Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
- 1979 - Barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress
- 1978 - Marcus Bent, English footballer
- 1978 - Kim Zolciak, American reality show star and singer
- 1977 - Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer
- 1977 - Brandon Inge, American baseball player
- 1977 - Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer and actress
- 1977 - Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress
- 1976 - Ed Cota, American basketball player
- 1976 - Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
- 1975 - Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
- 1975 - Jonas Renkse, Swedish musician
- 1975 - London Fletcher, American football player
- 1975 - Delma Gonçalves, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 - Josh Paul, American baseball player
- 1974 - Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1972 - Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
- 1972 - Claudia Karvan, Australian actress
- 1971 - Ross Katz, American film producer
- 1971 - Psicosis, Mexican professional wrestler
- 1970 - Choi Kyung-Ju, South Korean golfer
- 1970 - Mario Dumont, Canadian politician
- 1970 - Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
- 1968 - Kyle Eastwood, American jazz musician
- 1967 - Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor
- 1966 - Marc Bureau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 - Sophia Crawford, English actress and martial artist
- 1966 - Jodi Picoult, American writer
- 1966 - Polly Walker, English actress
- 1965 - Boris, French singer
- 1965 - Cecilia Bolocco, Chilean television presenter and 1987 Miss Universe
- 1965 - Maile Flanagan, American actress
- 1964 - Miloslav Me?í?, Slovakian tennis player
- 1964 - Sean Whalen, American actor
- 1964 - Lawrence Ng, Hong Kong actor
- 1963 - Filippo Galli, Italian footballer
- 1963 - Yazz, English singer
- 1961 - Gregory Poirier, American screenwriter and director
- 1959 - Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (d. 1994)
- 1957 - Bill Laimbeer, American basketball player and coach
- 1956 - Steven Ford, American actor
- 1955 - James Gosling, Canadian computer programmer
- 1954 - Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC)
- 1953 - Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
- 1953 - Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997)
- 1953 - Victoria Wood, English comedian and actress
- 1952 - Bert van Marwijk, Dutch footballer and coach
- 1951 - Joey Ramone, American vocalist and songwriter (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
- 1951 - Dick Slater, American professional wrestler
- 1949 - Dusty Hill, American singer and bassist (ZZ Top)
- 1949 - Archie Manning, American football player
- 1948 - Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
- 1947 - Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
- 1947 - Paul Brady, Northern Ireland singer/songwriter
- 1947 - David Helfgott, Australian pianist
- 1946 - André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)
- 1946 - Claude Leličvre, Belgian commissioner for children's rights
- 1945 - Pete Townshend, English guitarist (The Who)
- 1944 - Peter Mayhew, British-American actor
- 1942 - Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (d. 1994)
- 1942 - Robert Kilroy-Silk, British politician and television presenter
- 1941 - Bobby Burgess, American dancer, singer and one of Walt Disney's original "Mouseketeers"
- 1941 - Nora Ephron, American screenwriter
- 1940 - Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
- 1940 - Mickey Newbury, American musician (d. 2002)
- 1939 - Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
- 1939 - James Fox, English actor
- 1939 - Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong actress
- 1939 - Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1938 - Madge Hindle, English actress
- 1938 - Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader (d. 1989)
- 1937 - Pat Roach, English actor and wrestler (d. 2004)
- 1935 - David Hartman, American actor and television personality
- 1934 - Jim Lehrer, American television journalist
- 1934 - Ruskin Bond, Indian author
- 1934 - Bill Fitch, American basketball head coach
- 1932 - Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
- 1932 - Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
- 1932 - Claude Blanchard, French Canadian comedian and actor (d. 2006)
- 1931 - Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
- 1931 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967)
- 1930 - Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965)
- 1929 - John Stroger, American politician (d. 2008)
- 1928 - Colin Chapman, British car designer, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
- 1928 - Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach
- 1926 - Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
- 1926 - Peter Zadek, German theatre director (d. 2009)
- 1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
- 1925 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
- 1925 - Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004)
- 1924 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
- 1922 - Joe Gilmore, Irish barman and cocktail creator, the longest running Head Barman at The Savoy Hotel's American Bar
- 1921 - Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist
- 1921 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
- 1921 - Daniel Gélin, French actor (d. 2002)
- 1919 - Mitja Ribi?i?, Slovenian Communist politician, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
- 1918 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
- 1914 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
- 1914 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player
- 1914 - Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1910 - Alan Melville, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1948, (d. 1983)
- 1910 - Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
- 1909 - Sir Nicholas Winton, British wartime humanitarian
- 1908 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
- 1908 - Merriam Modell, American author (d. 1994)
- 1906 - Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
- 1898 - Julius Evola, Italian far-right philosopher and esotericist (d. 1974)
- 1897 - Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
- 1891 - Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)
- 1890 - H? Chí Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969)
- 1882 - Mohammed Mosaddeq, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
- 1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
- 1880 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (d. 1964)
- 1879 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born British politician, the first woman to sit as an MP in the House of Commons (d. 1964)
- 1874 - Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
- 1871 - Walter Russell, American polymath (d. 1963)
- 1870 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
- 1861 - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
- 1827 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
- 1797 - Maria Isabel of Portugal, Queen of Spain (d. 1818)
- 1795 - Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
- 1773 - Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
- 1762 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
- 1744 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German-born wife of King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1818)
- 1724 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
- 1700 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
- 1593 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)