Today’s Highlights

On May 19, 1920, 10 people were killed in a gun battle between coal miners, who were led by a local police chief, and a group of private security guards hired to evict them for joining a union in Matewan, West Virginia.

On this date

1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded at the Tower of London after being convicted of adultery.

1883: William Cody held the first of his “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” shows in Omaha, Nebraska.

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

1943: British Prime Minister Winston 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.

2018: Britain’s Prince Harry wed American actor Meghan Markle in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.

Today’s birthdays

TV personality David Hartman is 90. Musician-composer Pete Townshend is 80. Singer-actor Grace Jones is 77. Former racing driver Dario Franchitti is 52. Basketball Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett is 49. Country musician-producer Shooter Jennings is 46. Comedian-actor Michael Che is 42. Singer Sam Smith is 33. Media personality-singer JoJo Siwa is 22.