| Saturday, May 19, 2012 Born on this day
| | 1861 - | Dame Nellie Melba, Australian operatic singer, is born. [more] | Australian Explorers
| | 1840 - | Strzelecki names the Gippsland region of southeast Australia. [more] | Australian History
| | 1915 - | John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the man who heroically rescued 300 wounded soldiers with a donkey at Gallipoli, is killed. [more] | World History
| | 1780 - | An unexplained darkness engulfs the New England region of North America. [more] | | |