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A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (2 weeks). The word comes from the , meaning "". Some wages and salaries are paid every fortnight; however, in North America it is more common to use the term biweekly. Neither of these terms should be confused with semimonthly. Astronomy. In astronomy, a lunar fortnight is half a synodic month, equal to the mean period between a full moon and a new moon (and vice versa). This is equal to 14.77 days. Sports. A fortnight is a word that is commonly used in sporting communities. Many big sports events have a two-week or around a half-month time frame. In tennis, Wimbledon and the other Grand Slam tournaments are played over two weeks and are often referred to as lasting a fortnight. The Summer and Winter Olympics are also slightly longer than two weeks and may be called a fortnight as well. Various other events in the sporting world may last around a fortnight.
Jiří Stránský (12 August 1931 – 29 May 2019) was a Czech author, playwright, translator, political prisoner during the country's communist regime, and human rights activist.  In 1953, he was arrested by the communists and sentenced to eight years of forced labor for "treason". He was released in 1960. In 1974, he was arrested again and sentenced to another 3 to 5 years, but was released after one and a half.  After the fall of the communist regime, he was an author and head of the international section of the Czech Literary Fund. In 1992, he was elected President of the Czech section of International PEN. He was chairman of the council of the National Library from 1995 to 1998. He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism. Stránský died on 29 May 2019 at the age of 87.
Oxford is the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. It was founded in 1837. It was named after the British university city of Oxford. As of the 2020 US Census, the population is 25,416. Oxford is the home of the University of Mississippi, founded in 1848, also commonly known as "Ole Miss".
Włodzimierz Wojciech Ptak (2 November 1928 – 28 May 2019) was a Polish immunologist and microbiologist. In 1986, he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning. He was a professor at the Medical Academy in Kraków, later transformed into the Jagiellonian University Medical College. In his scientific work, Ptak was known for his work on regulatory mechanisms of the immune response. He published more than 200 original research papers, and was one of the most cited Polish scientists in the field of biomedicine after 1965.
Claus von Bülow (born Claus Cecil Borberg; 11 August 1926 – 25 May 2019) was a Danish-British socialite.  He was known for being accused of the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow in 1979 which had left her in a coma from which she never recovered. However, that conviction in the first trial was reversed and he was found not guilty at his second trial.  In the same trial he was also convicted for the attempted murder of his wife by insulin overdose in 1980 which left her in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life, but that conviction in the first trial was also reversed and he was found not guilty at his second trial. He was a friend and personal assistant to J. Paul Getty. The characters Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" are named after Claus and Sunny von Bülow. Bülow died in London on 25 May 2019 at the age of 92.
Hartwig Löger (born 15 July 1965) is an Austrian politician and former business executive. He was the Acting Chancellor of Austria from 28 May 2019 to 3 June 2019. From 2011 to 2017 he was chief executive officer of UNIQA Austria (part of the Uniqa Insurance Group) and since 2017 he has been Minister of Finance. On 22 May 2019, he was named Vice Chancellor, and on 28 May 2019, he was sworn in as Acting Chancellor after Austria's first ever successful vote of no confidence against the federal government, following the Ibiza affair.
Brigitte Bierlein (25 June 1949 – 3 June 2024) was an Austrian jurist. Bierlein was the Chancellor of Austria from 3 June 2019 to 7 January 2020. She was the advocate general of the Procurator's Office from 1990 to 2002, and a member of the executive board of the International Association of Prosecutors from 2001 to 2003.  In 2003, Bierlein was made a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court. Since January 2018, she has been its president, the first woman to hold this position. She was made temporary Chancellor until the next national elections in September 2019 and is the first woman in this role in Austria. Bierlein was born on 25 June 1949 in Vienna. Bierlein died on 3 June 2024 in Vienna from a short-illness at the age of 74.
James Marape (born 24 April 1971) is a Papua New Guinea politician. He has been a member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea since July 2007, representing the electorate of Tari-Pori Open. On 30 May 2019, he was nominated, elected, and sworn in as the 8th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea by the National Parliament.
Sir Michael Thomas Somare (9 April 1936 – 26 February 2021) was a Papua New Guinean politician. His career lasted from 1968 until his retirement in 2017. He was the longest serving Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (17 years). He was the country's first Prime Minister. Somare died on 26 February 2021 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea from pancreatic cancer, aged 84.
The Governor-General of Papua New Guinea is the representative of Papua New Guinean monarch (currently Charles III).
Freddy Buache (29 December 1924 – 28 May 2019) was a Swiss journalist, movie critic and historian. He was the director of the Swiss Film Archive from 1951 to 1996. He was a privatdozent at the University of Lausanne. Buache was born in Lausanne. Buache died on 28 May 2019 at the age of 94.
The tornado outbreak of May 2019 is a record-breaking tornado outbreak in the United States and Canada. It has so far produced at least 237 tornadoes. This includes 47 significant events (EF2+). 18 of these were EF3 tornadoes over multiple states. States affected were Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. On May 28, the U.S. had its 12th straight day with at least eight tornadoes, which broke the previous record of 11 days straight set in 1980. During this period, the U.S. had an average of 27.5 tornadoes per day.
The Kawasaki stabbings happened on the morning of 28 May 2019 in the Tama ward of Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, four blocks west of Noborito Station.  Two people were murdered, and 17 others were injured after being stabbed at a city bus stop by 51-year-old Ryuichi Iwasaki. After carrying out the attack, he committed suicide by stabbing himself in the neck. The fatal victims were an 11-year-old student, and a 39-year-old Foreign Ministry employee. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has sent condolences to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Japanese people after the stabbing.
Judith Ortiz Cofer (February 24, 1952 – December 30, 2016) was a Puerto Rican author. She is best known for her works of creative non-fiction and her works are to exposes the rifts and gaps that arise between her split cultural heritages. Her work also explores such subjects as racism and sexism in American culture. She was also an author of a children´s book. The topics she wrote about over her career: "A Love Story Beginning in Spanish", "Reaching for the Mainland and Selected New Poems", "Terms of Survival", and "The Poet Upstairs", "Animal Jamboree/La Fiesta De Los Animales: Latino Folktales / Leyendas", and "A Bailar!/Let’s Dance". Most of her topics are about children, animals, and love. Judith Ortiz Cofer was voted into the Georgia Writers Hall of"F"fame. Early life. Judith Ortíz Cofer was born to Jesus Lugo Ortíz and Fanny Morot in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, on February 24, 1952. She moved to Paterson, New Jersey with her family in 1956. Morot (her mother) gave birth to Judith Ortíz Cofer when she was fifteen years old. They believed they would have more opportunities for young parents in America. Despite Lugo’s (her father) passion for working in a university, he left school and joined the U.S. Navy. Later, he was assigned to Panama when his daughter was born. He met Judith Ortiz Cofer for the first time two years later. Her family’s move from Puerto Rico to New Jersey influenced her writing. How she became a writer. Ortiz Cofer's work can be called creative nonfiction. Her narrative style was influenced by oral storytelling, which her grandmother inspired. In Puerto Rico, their tradition is storytelling. She began her writing career with a work of poetry, "The Latin Deli." She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her other works explore various genres, combining poetry, short fiction, and personal narrative. Ortiz Cofer's works often focus on living her life between two cultures, American and Puerto Rican, and how this informs her ideas as a writer.
SNC-Lavalin is a Canadian engineering company based in Montreal. It was founded in 1911 by Arthur Surveyer. It faces charges of corruption, in connection with bribery in Libya. SNC-Lavalin is the largest construction company in Canada, as of 2018.
Fritz Schösser (24 June 1947 – 28 May 2019) was a German politician. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was the chairman of the Trade Union Confederation (DGB) in Bavaria from 1990 and 2010. From 1992 to 1994, he was a member of the Bavarian Senate. He was elected to the Landtag of Bavaria in 1994, serving until 1998. From 1998 to 2005, Schösser was a member of the national Bundestag. Schösser was born in Töging am Inn. He was married and had two children. He died on 28 May 2019 in Munich, at the age of 71.
Mark James Harper (born 26 February 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician. Harper served as the Member of Parliament for the Forest of Dean from 2005 to 2024. He was has the Secretary of State for Transport between 2022 and 2024. He was the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons from May 2015 to July 2016. On 30 May 2019, Harper announced his campaign to run for Leader of the Conservative Party in the 2019 election. He was eliminated on the first ballot from the race on 13 June.
Richard Cordley (September 6, 1829 – July 11, 1904) was an abolitionist (someone who wanted slavery to end) and a Protestant. Cordley was one of the first people to live in Lawrence, Kansas. He lived through the Lawrence Massacre and the Sack of Lawrence. He wrote about the history of Lawrence. He also wrote about the history of Kansas. He got the first degree from the University of Kansas in 1874. Life. Cordley was born on September 6, 1829, in Nottingham, England. When he was four years old, he moved to Livingston County, Michigan. He started going to school when he was nine years old. He got degrees from the University of Michigan in 1854 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1857. He also got the first degree from the University of Kansas in 1874. In 1857, he became the pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence, Kansas, and continued being the pastor until 1875. From that later year until 1884, he served in Flint, Michigan, and Emporia, Kansas. Then, in 1884, he came back to Lawrence and continued being the pastor at Plymouth Congregational Church. He died on July 11, 1904. He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.
The 2018–19 UEFA Europa League knockout phase began on 12 February and ended on 29 May 2019 with the final at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan, to decide the champions of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League. A total of 32 teams competed in the knockout phase. For the first time, the video assistant referee (VAR) system was used in the competition, where it was implemented in the final. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses). Qualified teams. The knockout phase involved 32 teams: the 24 teams which qualify as winners and runners-up of each of the twelve groups in the group stage, and the eight third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage. Bracket. &lt;section begin="Bracket" /&gt;&lt;section end="Bracket" /&gt; Round of 32. The draw for the round of 32 was held on 17 December 2018, 13:00 CET. Summary. The first legs were played on 12 and 14 February, and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 February 2019. &lt;section begin="R32" /&gt; &lt;section end="R32" /&gt; Matches. "Dinamo Zagreb won 4–2 on aggregate." "Red Bull Salzburg won 5–2 on aggregate." "Inter Milan won 5–0 on aggregate." "Slavia Prague won 4–1 on aggregate." "1–1 on aggregate. Krasnodar won on away goals." "Napoli won 5–1 on aggregate." "Chelsea won 5–1 on aggregate." "Eintracht Frankfurt won 6–3 on aggregate." "Valencia won 3–0 on aggregate." "Rennes won 6–4 on aggregate." "Dynamo Kyiv won 3–2 on aggregate." "Sevilla won 3–0 on aggregate." "Zenit Saint Petersburg won 3–2 on aggregate." "Villarreal won 2–1 on aggregate."
Bhumika Gurung is an Indian model and television actress. She played Nimki in Nimki Mukhiya which airs on Star Bharat.
Laurie Jane Hendren (December 13, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was a Canadian computer scientist. She was a graduate of Queen's University and Cornell University. She is noted for her research in programming languages and compilers. McGill University. In 1990, she began working as an assistant professor at McGill University and became a full professor in 2001. She was awarded a Canada Research Chair in 2011. She was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012. Hendren was born in Peterborough, Ontario. She was married and had a daughter. She died of cancer on May 27, 2019 in Montreal, Quebec. She was 60.
Ingemar Skogö (4 January 1949 – 28 May 2019) was a Swedish civil servant. Skogö was a graduate of Lund University. He served as the Governor of Västmanland County from 2009 to 2015. Skogö was also the Director-General of the Civil Aviation Administration from 1992 to 2001, and the Swedish Road Administration from 2001 to 2009. Skogö was born in Tranås. He died on 28 May 2019, at the age of 70.
Lahja Tuulikki Ukkola ("née" Parviainen; 28 November 1943 – 28 May 2019) was a Finnish politician and journalist. She started working for the newspaper "Kaleva" in 1962. She served as an MP for the Oulu constituency for the Liberal People's Party from 1991 to 1995. She was also the leader of the party between 1993 and 1995. In 2007, Ukkola was again elected as an MP for Oulu, this time for the National Coalition Party, serving until 2011. Ukkola was born in Taivalkoski. She died on 28 May 2019 in Oulu, at the age of 75.
Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug trafficker. He operated in Harlem, New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin straight from his source in Southeast Asia. In 1976, he was jailed for 70 years but was released five years later in 1981. He was again jailed in 1984 and released in 1991. He was played by Denzel Washington in the 2007 movie "American Gangster". He was born in La Grange, North Carolina and grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. Lucas died in New Jersey on May 30, 2019, at the age of 89.
Alan Smith (15 October 1921 – 27 May 2019) was an English footballer. He played as an outside left. Smith was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He played for Brentford and Arsenal in the Football League during the 1940s. He later played for Leyton Orient and Ashford Town. Smith died on 27 May 2019, at the age of 97.
"Never Really Over" is a song by American singer Katy Perry. The song was released on May 31, 2019, along with its music video. It is an electropop and dance-pop song. Perry wrote the song with German DJ Zedd, Dagny, Dreamlab, Hayley Werner, Gino Barletta, Michelle Buzz, and Jason Gill, while Zedd and Dreamlab produced it. Perry worked with Zedd on their joint single, "365", earlier in 2019. The song is included on Perry's studio album, "Smile". Patrick Ryan of "USA Today" called the song "an undeniable earworm that should prove to be a strong song-of-summer contender," while adding that the song was Perry's "best new song in years." Music video. The video features bright colors and dancing in California fields. Perry undergoes acupuncture and is seen with a device catching her tears and watering nearby trees.
Charles Lawrence Robinson (July 21, 1818 – August 17, 1894) was the first Governor of Kansas. He was very important in creating Lawrence, Kansas. Life. Massachusetts. Robinson was studied at Hadley and Amherst academies. He also studied at Amherst College. He studied medicine in Woodstock, Vermont, and later in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He got his medical degree at the Berkshire Medical College in Pittsfield in 1843. He practiced medicine in Belchertown, Springfield, and Fitchburg. California. He traveled to California in 1850. In Sacramento, he edited a daily paper called the "Settler's and Miner's Tribune". He participated in the riots of 1850 as a supporter of squatter sovereignty. He was seriously wounded. While under indictment for conspiracy and murder, was elected to the California legislature. He was discharged by the court without trial. He represented California's 12th State Assembly district from 1851 to 1852. He married Sara Tappan Doolittle Lawrence in 1851, and they had two children. Kansas. During Bleeding Kansas, Robinson made many people mad because he supported anti-slavery people. In 1861, he became the first Governor of Kansas.  He was elected to the Kansas State Senate. He served from 1873 to 1881. He was Superintendent of the Haskell Institute from 1887 to 1889. He was regent of the University of Kansas for twelve years. He died on August 17, 1894. He is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.
Citypoint (previously known as Britannic House and Britannic Tower) is a skyscraper located on Ropemaker Street on the northern part of the City of London, the main financial district and historic center of London. Originally named Britannic House, Citypoint was built in 1967 as a 35-storey, tall headquarters for British Petroleum (now BP). This became the first building in the City of London area to pass the height of St Paul's Cathedral. The designers were F. Milton Cashmore and H. N. W. Grosvenor. In 1991 British Petroleum moved back to their original headquarters on Finsbury Circus and the building was renamed Britannic Tower. It was refurbished in 2000, with additional floor space and the height increased to . Sheppard Robson helped to improve the building. It was then renamed to Citypoint. Citypoint is the seventh-tallest building in the City, after the Heron Tower, 122 Leadenhall Street, Tower 42, 30 St Mary Axe, Broadgate Tower and 20 Fenchurch Street but only the 23rd-tallest in Greater London. In August 2005 its owner, Pillar Properties, sold the building for more than £500 million in one of the largest deals ever seen in the City office market. In early 2007 the building was again put on the market, this time for £650 million, and purchased by a private American company called Beacon Capital Partners. At the time it was the most expensive building sale in the United Kingdom. However 8 Canada Square at Canary Wharf eclipsed this by some margin just a few months later when it was sold for over £1 billion. A number of other large buildings are planned on sites nearby. These include a 43-storey, residential tower at Milton Court. A office tower at Ropemaker Place has also been developed by British Land.
Ani Yudhoyono (born Kristiani Herrawati; 6 July 1952 – 1 June 2019) was an Indonesian socialite. She was the wife of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and First Lady of Indonesia from 2004 until 2014. The couple married in 1976. She enjoyed photography and gardening. She launched two books on the botanic collection at the Cipanas Palace and multiple Indonesian Botanical Gardens, in which some of her photographs were included. Yudhoyono was born in Yogyakarta. She died of leukaemia on 1 June 2019 in Singapore. She was 66.
On May 31, 2019, a man fired multiple shots at a city building in the Princess Anne area of Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. The shooting caused 12 civilian deaths. The perpetrator, DeWayne Craddock, was killed by police. Five other people were injured. A police spokesperson stated a shooter opened fire in Building 2 of the Center, which houses the city's public works, utilities, and planning departments.  A semi-automatic pistol and a rifle were found at the scene. The perpetrator was fired from his job the day before the shooting. Governor Ralph Northam issued a statement on Twitter saying, "My heart breaks for the victims of this devastating shooting, their families, and all who loved them." References.
Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson (July 15, 1947 – May 31, 2019) was an American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and guitarist. He was born in Austin, Texas. He was a founding member of The 13th Floor Elevators and a known musician of the psychedelic rock genre. Erickson died on May 31, 2019 at his home in Austin at the age of 71.
Oscar Martinez is a fictional character from the US mockumentary-style television series "The Office" played by Cuban-American actor Oscar Nunez. Martinez was one of the few openly gay characters in broadcast television at the time that the series aired.  Nunez, who is straight, did not know his character might be gay when he first signed on. For the 2006–2007 season, Gay &amp; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) reported he was the only LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) person of color character on a regular series.  For the 2007–2008 season he was the "only remaining gay character on a half-hour comedy program" and the only LGBT lead or supporting character who is a person of color.
Creed Rowland Bratton (claims to have been born November 1, 1925) is a fictional character from the U.S. television series "The Office".  The character is played by the musician of the same name, Creed Bratton. The fictional Creed is partially based on the experiences and former flower child lifestyle of the real one. Series writer B. J. Novak has said that the actual Creed Bratton is exactly like the character he plays, except that the real Creed is a good-hearted and likable person.
Penelope Mary Mordaunt (; born 4 March 1973) is a British Conservative politician who was the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council. She was the Secretary of State for Defence in 2019, and has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth North from 2010 until she lost her seat after the 2024 election.  Mordaunt was Secretary of State for International Development from 2017 to 2019.  In May 2019, Mordaunt was appointed Defence Secretary after Gavin Williamson was fired. She is the first woman to hold this post. In July 2022, Mordaunt announced her candidacy to replace Boris Johnson as Leader of the Conservative Party in the 2022 leadership election. She was eliminated in the fifth round of voting on 20 July 2022. After Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister in October 2022, Mordaunt announced her candidacy for Conservative Party leader again for the October leadership election. She withdrew from the race on 23 October 2022 and supported Rishi Sunak, who won the election unopposed.
Paolo Babbini (19 August 1935 – 25 May 2019) was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PSI). Babbini served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies for three terms, from 1979 to 1983 and two back-to-back terms from 1987 to 1994. He was born in Bologna. He was a municipal councillor of Bologna for over 25 years. Babbini died on 25 May 2019 in Bologna, at the age of 83.
Truman Henry "Tony" DeLap (4 November 1927 – 29 May 2019) was an American artist who worked mainly in California. He was known for his abstract sculpture using illusionist techniques and craftsmanship. His works were important in the West Coast minimalism and Op Art field.  DeLap was included in several important group exhibitions of the 1960s including; Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum; "American Sculpture of the Sixties" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and "The Responsive Eye" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York City.