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1536 – King Henry VIII accused Anne Boleyn of adultery & incest
1776 – France & Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
1833 – Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
1865 – Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1926 – US military intervenes in Nicaragua
1933 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
1949 – Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for “Death of a Salesman”
1968 – Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
1969 – British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to NY
1974 – Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
1988 – Jackson Pollock’s “Search” sold for $4,800,000
2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2011 – Osama bin Laden, is killed by United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2012 – Edvard Munch’s famous painting ‘The Scream’ sells at auction for $119,922,500
Birthdays
1729 – Catherine the Great [Catherine II], Stettin, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, Empress of Russia (1762-96)
1903 – Benjamin Spock, New Haven, Connecticut, American pediatrician (Common Sense Book of Baby Care)
1912 – Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate
Deaths
1519 – Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67
1957 – Joseph McCarthy, anti-communist US senator (R-Wisc), dies at 48
1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72) dies at 77
Edited from various sources including historyorb.com, the NYTimes.com and many other Google searches
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