On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded at the Tower of London after being convicted of adultery.

In 1883, William Cody held the first of his “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” shows in Omaha, Nebraska.

In 1920, 10 people were killed in a gun battle between coal miners, led by a local police chief, and a group of private security guards hired to evict them for joining a union in Matewan, West Virginia.

In 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.

In 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, where they agreed on May 1, 1944, as the date for the D-Day invasion of France. (Expansion plans caused the date of the landing to be delayed by a month.)