TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

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.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1536

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

1649

England was declared a republic by Parliament following the execution of King Charles I.

1913

California Gov. Hiram Johnson signed the Webb-Hartley Law prohibiting “aliens ineligible to citizenship” from owning farm land, a measure targeting Asian immigrants, particularly Japanese.

1921

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

1924

The Marx Brothers made their Broadway debut in the revue “I’ll Say She Is.”

1935

T.E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” died in Dorset, England, six days after being injured in a motorcycle crash.

1967

The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain, banning nuclear and other weapons from outer space as well as celestial bodies such as the moon.

1981

Five British soldiers were killed by an Irish Republican Army land mine in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.