Event:
Robert Spitzer, a retired American psychiatrist, claims his 2001 study was 'fatally flawed'; the study falsely supported the myth that gay people could be 'cured'
More Notable Events on May 19:
1992 Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values
1964 U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres
1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
