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Monday, May 19, 2008

Birthdays | History highlights

PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer is 74.

TV personality David Hartman is 73.

Actor James Fox is 69.

Actress Nancy Kwan is 69.

Author-director Nora Ephron is 67.

Actor Peter Mayhew is 64.

Singer-actress Grace Jones is 56.

Rock musician Phil Rudd (AC-DC) is 54.

Former baseball catcher Rick Cerone is 54.

Actor Steven Ford is 52.

Actor Drew Fuller is 28.

Actor Eric Lloyd is 22.

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

In 1643, delegates from four New England colonies met in Boston to form a confederation.

In 1943, in an address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country's full support in the fight against Japan.

In 1962, during a Democratic fundraiser, actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" for guest-of-honor President Kennedy.

In 1992, in Massapequa, N.Y., Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by her husband Joey's teen-age lover, Amy Fisher.

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