Napoleon Bonaparte's expeditionary force set sail from France to invade Egypt.
HistoryOn this day — May 19 in African history
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British forces relieved the 217-day Siege of Mafeking during the Second Boer War in South Africa.
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Associated Press — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1925 Malcolm X, the American Muslim minister and human rights activist, was born.
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Creator:Bernie Faingold — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1963 Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' was published in the New York Post Sunday Magazine.
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Christian Malanga — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons Christian Malanga, a Congolese politician and businessman, was killed while leading a failed coup attempt in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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