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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.
1588 The Spanish Armada set sail for England.
1906 The Federated Boys' Clubs, forerunner of the Boys' Clubs of America, were organized.
1921 Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.
1925 Civil rights leader Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb.
On May 19, 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of ''Happy Birthday'' for President John F. Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1964 The State Department disclosed that 40 hidden microphones had been found in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1967 The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space.
1992 Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom ''Murphy Brown'' because the title character chose to have a child out of wedlock.
1992 Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded in Massapequa, N.Y., by her husband Joey's teenage lover, Amy Fisher.
1992 The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect.
1993 The White House set off a political storm by firing the entire staff of its travel office; five of the seven staffers were later reinstated and assigned to other duties.
1994 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York at age 64.
2003 WorldCom Inc. agreed to pay investors $500 million to settle civil fraud charges.
2004 Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits wept and apologized after receiving a year in prison and a bad conduct discharge in the first court-martial stemming from abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Pete Townshend turns 60 today.
Good morning Tala & everyone..... it's just past noon here but I'm sure it's still morning somewhere in the world.
Coffee's on, that's all I know.
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