On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.
In 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England.
In 1921 Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.
In 1930 playwright Lorraine Hansberry (“A Raisin in the Sun”) was born in Chicago.
In 1935 T.E. Lawrence, the British archeologist, soldier and writer who became known as Lawrence of Arabia, died in Dorset, England, from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash; he was 46.
In 1943, in an address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country’s full support in the war against Japan.
In 1945 Pete Townshend, rock musician and founder of The Who, was born in London.
In 1962, during a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden, actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of ”Happy Birthday” for President John F. Kennedy.
In 1967 the Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space.
In 1992 the 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect. Also in 1992, in Massapequa, N.Y., Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by her husband Joey’s teenage lover, Amy Fisher.
In 1994 former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York; she was 64.
