On June 1, 1533, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.
In 1637 Jesuit missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette was born in Laon, France.
In 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state of the union.
In 1796 Tennessee became the 16th state.
In 1801 Mormon leader Brigham Young was born in Whitingham, Vt.
In 1813 Capt. James Lawrence, commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake and mortally wounded in a losing battle with the British frigate Shannon, gave the Navy its motto when he said before dying: “Don’t give up the ship.”
In 1868 James Buchanan, the 15th president, died near Lancaster, Pa.; he was 77.
In 1926 actor Andy Griffith was born in Mt. Airy, N.C.
In 1930 actor Edward Woodward (“The Equalizer”) was born in Croyden, England.
In 1934 singer Pat Boone was born in Jacksonville.
In 1937 actor Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis.
In 1943 British actor Leslie Howard was killed when a civilian airliner en route from Lisbon to London was shot down by the Germans in World War II.
In 1944 the British Broadcasting Corporation aired a coded message intended to warn the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
In 1948 blues musician Sonny Boy Williamson, who was born John Lee Williamson, died in Chicago; he was 34.
In 1958 Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.
In 1967 the Beatles released their landmark album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
I n 1968 Helen Keller, the deaf and blind American writer, died in Westport, Conn. She was 88.
In 1971 liberal theologian Reinhold Niebuhr died in Stockbridge, Mass.; he was 78.
In 1977 the Soviet Union formally charged human-rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. He was imprisoned until 1986.
In 1980 Cable News Network made its debut as the first all-news television channel.
In 1988 President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev concluded their Moscow summit by exchanging documents ratifying the intermediate-range nuclear arms treaty they had signed the previous December.
In 1989 former Sunday school teacher John List, sought for 18 years in the slayings of his mother, wife and three children in Westfield, N.J., was arrested in Richmond, Va. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.)
In 1990 President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed more than a dozen bilateral accords in the second day of their Washington summit.
In 1992 the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Blackhawks in a four-game sweep to win the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup for the second successive year.
In 1993 the Supreme Court ruled that a criminal conviction must be overturned if the jury was given a constitutionally flawed definition of “beyond reasonable doubt.”
In 1996 an estimated 200,000 participants, most of them schoolchildren, gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to protest government cuts for social and educational programs.
In 1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, died in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson in her apartment in Yonkers, N.Y.; she was 61.
In 1998 President Bill Clinton abruptly abandoned his claim of executive privilege in the Monica Lewinsky investigation, reducing the prospect of a quick Supreme Court review of a dispute over the testimony of presidential aides.
In 1999 an American Airlines MD-82 landed off-center during a severe thunderstorm in Little Rock, Ark., and barreled off the end of the runway, breaking apart and catching fire; 11 people, including the captain, died.
In 2000, with about half an hour to spare, Texas Gov. George W. Bush blocked the scheduled execution of convicted killer Ricky McGinn so that possibly exculpatory DNA evidence could be reviewed. (The DNA tests failed to establish McGinn’s innocence, and he was put to death by injection the following September.)
In 2001 the king, queen and seven other members of Nepal’s royal family were slain by Crown Prince Dipendra, who then killed himself. Also in 2001 “Dennis the Menace” creator Hank Ketcham died in Pebble Beach, Calif.; he was 81.
In 2002 President George W. Bush told West Point graduates that the United States would strike pre-emptively against suspected terrorists if necessary to deter attacks on Americans, saying “the war on terror will not be won on the defensive.”
In 2003 leaders of the world’s seven wealthiest nations and Russia pledged billions of dollars to fight AIDS and hunger on the opening day of their summit in Evian, France.
In 2004 a federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringed on women’s right to choose.
In 2005 Paul Wolfowitz began a 5-year term as head of the 184-nation World Bank. (He stepped down two years later.) Also in 2005 Dutch voters rejected the European Union constitution.
In 2006 six world powers, including the U.S., agreed on a package of incentives to persuade Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program. Also in 2006 a contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
