Saturday, May 19, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

May 19

1536:Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded.
1588:The 130-ship-strong Spanish Armada set sail for England; it was defeated in August.
1643:The colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Harbor met to form the New England Confederation.
1921;Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas for immigrants.
1935:British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
1962:Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday” to president John F. Kennedy.

1994:Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York.

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