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Lee Hsien Loong
- Protests over voting rights changes break out in New Caledonia, a territory of France in the Pacific.
- Lee Hsien Loong (pictured) steps down after nearly 20 years as the prime minister of Singapore, and is succeeded by Lawrence Wong.
- Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, is hospitalised after an assassination attempt.
- Switzerland, represented by Nemo with "The Code", wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
- A series of solar storms impact Earth, creating aurorae seen farther from the poles than usual.
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May 19: Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day in Turkey (1919)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
- 1655 – Anglo-Spanish War: England invaded Spanish Jamaica, capturing it a week later.
- 1743 – French physicist Jean-Pierre Christin published the design of a mercury thermometer using the centigrade scale, with 0 representing the melting point of water and 100 its boiling point.
- 1828 – The United States Congress passed the largest tariff in the nation's history, which resulted in severe economic hardship in the American South.
- 1915 – First World War: Australian and New Zealand troops repelled the third attack on Anzac Cove, inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking Ottoman forces.
- 2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (both pictured) took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, England.
- Alcuin (d. 804)
- Claude Vignon (b. 1593)
- Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
- John Gorton (d. 2002)
The acorn is the nut of the oak tree and its close relatives, in the family Fagaceae. Acorns usually contain a seedling surrounded by two cotyledons (seedling leaves), enclosed in a tough shell known as the pericarp, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. This acorn of the species Quercus robur (the pedunculate oak), with a length of 25 millimetres (1 inch), was photographed in Keila, Estonia.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus