TODAY IN HISTORY - MAY 19TH

1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.

1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.

1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.

1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author and diplomat (b. 1804) dies.

1890 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (d. 1969) is born.

1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.

1921 – The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.

1925 – Malcolm X, American minister and activist (d. 1965) is born.

1928 – Colin Chapman, English engineer and businessman, founded Lotus Cars (d. 1982) is born.

1939 – Dick Scobee, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1986) is born.

1943 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.

1944 – Peter Mayhew, English-American actor, Chewbacca from Star Wars, is born.

1946 – André the Giant, French-American wrestler and actor (d. 1993) is born.

1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".

1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.

1984 – Michael Larson, a contestant on the television game show Press Your Luck exploits a bug in the prize board, and wins over US$110,000.

1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (b. 1929) dies.

2015 – The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.