What Happens on May 19th
1924 : US Congress passes Emergency Quota Law, which implements a quota system of immigration origin countries that greatly benefits northern and western Europeans of all other groups
1909 : Ballet Russes de Serge Diaghilev is newly formed, composed almost entirely of Russian emigrants, debuting in Paris and achieving instant success
1798 : Napoleon Bonaparte sailed with over 35,000 troops over 350 ships to Alexandria, Egypt, to occupy the country in order to threaten British India
1643 : In the last major battle of the Thirty Years' War, France under Louis II, Prince de Condé, defeated Spain in the Battle of Rocroi
1940 : Maurice Gustave Gamelin, commander of the French Allied forces on the western front at an early stage of World War II who was unable to resist the German invasion
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