On This Day in History May 19 Historical Events Anne Boleyn is beheaded after a four day show trial 1536 Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason.  1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form the United Colonies of New England.  1649 England is declared a Commonwealth by an act of the Rump Parliament making England a republic for the next 11 years.  1885 German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland.  1898 US Congress passes the Private Mailing Card Act, allowing private publishers and printers to produce postcards, had to be labelled "Private Mailing Cards" until 1901, known as "souvenir cards".  1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Black Sea coast, beginning the Turkish War of Independence.  More Historical Events  Famous Birthdays Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1881 - 1938 Ho Chi Minh 1890 - 1969 Florence Chadwick 1918 - 1995 Malcolm X 1925 - 1965 Also Pol Pot and André the Giant.  More Famous Birthdays  Famous Deaths T. E. Lawrence 1888 - 1935 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929 - 1994 Also Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Gladstone.  More Famous Deaths  Ogden Nash, The Perceptive Poet Ogden Nash, the American poet famous for his short, whimsical verse, died on this day. He was noted for his wit and understanding of the human condition.  The Whimsical Poet