Today is Saturday, May 19, the 140th day of 2012. There are 226 days left in the year.

1568 ― English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary

1780 ― About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day its cause is still unexplained

1885 ― First mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Mass.)

1928 ― Fifty-one frogs enter first annual ``Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Calif.)

1943 ― Churchill pledges England's full support to U.S. against Japan

1951 ― U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea

1958 ― Premiere of Harold Pinter's ``Birthday Party" in London

1967 ― U.S. bombs Hanoi

1979 ― Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd

1995 ― World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai