^B{^#!16!19 May^N! Feast day of St Dunstan, St Pudentiana, St Peter Celestine, Saints Calocerus and Parthenius, St Ivo of Kermartin, St Crispin of Viterbo, and St Peter Morrone.
^B{1585^B} English shipping in Spanish ports was confiscated as a reprisal for depredations across the Line; this served as a declaration of war on England. ^B{1643^B} The Confederation of New England was formed by Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay. ^B{1649^B} England was declared a Commonwealth. ^B{1662^B} The Act of Uniformity gave consent to the revised English Prayer Book and denied the right to take up arms against the king; Presbyterianism in the Church was destroyed and many ministers who did not confirm were ejected. A Licensing Act forbade imports of literature contrary to Christian faith. ^B{1930^B} White women were enfranchised in South Africa. ^B{1964^B} The US complained to Moscow about microphones concealed in its Moscow embassy.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher, ^B{1762^B}; Nellie Melba, Australian singer, ^B{1861^B}; Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader, ^B{1890^B}; Max Perutz, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, ^B{1914^B}; Sandy Wilson, British composer and playwright, ^B{1924^B}; Michael Balcon, English film producer, ^B{1896^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Alcuin of York, English poet, 804^B}; James Boswell, Scottish biographer and diarist, ^B{1795^B}; Nathaniel Hawthorne, US novelist, ^B{1864^B}; William Ewart Gladstone, British politician, ^B{1898^B}; T E Lawrence, English soldier and writer, ^B{1935^B}; Charles Ives, US composer, ^B{1954^B}; Ogden Nash, US poet, ^B{1971^B}; John Betjeman, English poet, ^B{1984^B}.
