Canada: Victoria Day
150th birth anniversary of Carl Akeley (1864-1926), the "father of modern taxidermy."
Birth anniversary of Malcolm X (Malcolm Little, 1925-1965) and Lorraine Hansberry (1930-65).
Happy Birthday! Bill Laimbeer Jr, Archie Manning, Pete Townshend
Francis Scobee (Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee) 1939 - Astronaut, killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger
1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier set sail for North America.
1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery.
1857 - The electric fire alarm system was patented by William F. Channing and Moses G. Farmer.
1921 - The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.
1926 - Benito Mussolini announced that democracy was deceased. Rome became a fascist state.
1935 - T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" died from injuries in a motorcycle crash in England.
1935 - The National Football League (NFL) adopted an annual college draft to begin in 1936.
1962 - Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The event was a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1992 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown" for having its title character decide to bear a child out of wedlock.
1992 - The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibits Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises.
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