1936: COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Joint Army-Navy Board reduces mission of the US Army in the Philippines to defense of the Bataan Peninsula and Subic Bay and established war with Japan as the most likely threat to US security. (Marc Small)
May 19th, 1939 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Northern Ireland: The keel of HMS ADAMANT, a 15,000 ton submarine depot ship, is laid at the Harland and Wolff shipyard.The TUC (Trades Union Congress) agrees to support conscription plans.
The first prototype of the Vickers Wellington MK III heavy bomber is flown for the first time today by test pilot Mutt Summers. (19)
U.S.A.: Destroyer USS Anderson commissioned.
Light cruiser USS St Louis commissioned.