TODAY IN HISTORY - MAY 17TH

1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage.

1829 – John Jay, American politician and diplomat, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) dies.

1849 – A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.

1868 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (d. 1920) is born.

1879 – Asa Packer, American businessman, founded Lehigh University (b. 1805) dies.

1886 – John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company (b. 1804) dies.

1911 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (b. 1836) dies.

1931 – Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader, founded Heaven's Gate (d. 1997) is born.

1934 – Ronald Wayne, American computer scientist, co-founded Apple Inc. is born.

1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.

1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

1956 – Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer and actor is born.

1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

1974 – Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.

1983 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.

1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.

2004 – Tony Randall, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1920) dies.

2004 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.

2012 – Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1948) dies.

2015 – At least nine people are killed and 18 injured, some by law enforcement and others in gunfire exchanges, in a shootout between rival biker gangs in Waco, Texas.