Today in History

193		The Roman emperor, Marcus Didius, is murdered in his palace.
1533		Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII‘s new queen, is crowned.
1774		The British government orders the port of Boston closed.
1789		The first U.S. congressional act on administering oaths becomes law.
1812		American navy captain James Lawrence, mortally wounded in a naval engagement with the British, exhorts to the crew of his vessel, the Chesapeake, “Don’t give up the ship!”
1862		General Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Confederate army outside Richmond after General Joe Johnston is injured at Seven Pines.
1864		The Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, begins as Confederate general Robert E. Lee tries to turn Union general Ulysses S. Grant’s flank.
1868		James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, dies.
1877		U.S. troops are authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico.
1915		Germany conducts the first zeppelin air raid over England.
1916		The National Defense Act increases the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.
1921		A race riot erupts in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing 85 people.
1939		The Douglas DC-4 makes its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.
1941		The German Army completes the capture of Crete as the Allied evacuation ends.
1942		America begins sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
1958		Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France.
1963		Governor George Wallace vows to defy an injunction ordering integration of the University of Alabama.
1978		The U.S. reports finding wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.