Today in History: Sunday, May 19, 2013

历史上的今天：2013年5月19日，星期天

May 19th 1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe performs a sultry rendition of Happy Birthday for President John F. Kennedy. It happens during a Democratic Party fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden where Kennedy is guest of honor.

1925 "To resort to any means necessary to bring about justice where the government can't give them justice."

Malcolm X, the black militant leader during America's chaotic 1960s is born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska.

1994 In New York, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies at age 64. Her years in the White House which she later dubbed Camelot ended in tragedy when her husband was assassinated in Dallas.

1992 A shooting on New York's Long Island that draws tabloid headlines across America. 17-year-old Amy Fisher shoots and seriously wounds Mary Jo Buttafuoco, wife of Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco. Fisher later serves 7 years in prison for the shooting which Buttafuoco survives.

And 1945 Pete Townshend, guitarist and songwriter with the British rock group The Who is born in London.

Today in History, May 19th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.