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.
- 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 In Massapequa, N.Y., Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by her husband Joey's teen-age 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 Incorporated agreed to pay investors $500 million to settle civil fraud charges.
- 1800 Sarah Peale (portrait artist; died Feb 4, 1885)
- 1890 Ho Chi Mihn (Nguyen That Thanh) (North Vietnamese leader: trail and city named after him; died Sep 2, 1969)
- 1925 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) (black nationalist and civil rights activist; assassinated Feb 21, 1965)
- 1934 James Lehrer (journalist: co-anchor: MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour; novelist: Blue Hearts)
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