This Day in History May 19

May 19

1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New England
1749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
1776 A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars
1828 US Pres. John Q Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers
1848 Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million
1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
1863 Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA (Bermuda Hundred)
1864 Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
1864 Skirmish at Cassville GA
1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres
1885 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn MA)
1892 Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
1905 Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss President open world's longest railroad tunnel (then) (Simplon) links Iselle Italy & Brig Switzerland
1921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
1931 Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel
1939 Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact
1941 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
1942 In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor
1943 Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
1944 German defense line in Italy collapsed
1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1958 US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222mph
1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy
1967 US bombs Hanoi
1967 USSR ratifies treaty with England & US banning nuclear weapons in space
1976 Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1983 NASA launches Intelsat V
1986 The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan

I like your daily history lesson and do not want to be a wise guy, but "1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222mph"? Should the unit read "m"?

not sure where that number came from. On this day in 1960 he flew 1320 mph at 48000 ft. on the first flight of the X-15. He was also the first pilot to break mach 4,5 and 6 and an altitude of over 59 miles.