TODAY IN HISTORY

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

1780: A mysterious darkness enveloped much of New England and part of Canada in the early afternoon. 1920: Ten 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, a small “company town” in West Virginia. 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 (the operation ended up being launched more than a month later).

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.

1993: The Clinton White

House set off a political storm by abruptly 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.

2018: Britain’s Prince Harry wed American actress Meghan Markle in a service that reflected Harry’s royal heritage and his bride’s biracial roots, as well as their shared commitment to put a more diverse, modern face on the monarchy.