Today’s highlight

On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.

On this date

1780: A mysterious darkness enveloped much of New England and part of Canada in the early afternoon.

1921: Congress passed, and President Warren G. Harding signed, the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.

1943: In his second wartime address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country’s full support in the fight against Japan; that evening, Churchill met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, where the two leaders agreed on May 1, 1944 as the date for the D-Day invasion of France.

1962: Film star Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday to You” to President John F. Kennedy during a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

1967: The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain, banning nuclear and other weapons from outer space.

2020: A Trump administration policy of quickly expelling most migrants stopped along the border because of the COVID-19 pandemic was indefinitely extended.

Today’s birthdays

TV personality David Hartman is 89. Rock singer-composer Pete Townshend is 79. Former NFL player Archie Manning is 75. Singer-actor Grace Jones is 73. Rock musician Phil Rudd is 70. Actor-comedian Michael Che (chay) (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 41.