Today in History 05/02/17

Anne Boleyn in the Tower of London (© Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)(1536) Anne Boleyn is arrested and imprisoned
Three years after King Henry VIII broke away from Rome’s Catholic dictates and annulled his first marriage to marry Anne Boleyn, he now has his eye on another potential bride. He has Queen Anne arrested on charges of adultery, witchcraft, and treason, and taken to the Tower of London.
Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII, and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry’s marriage to her, and her subsequent execution by beheading, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation.
Lived: 1501 – May 19, 1536
Spouse: Henry VIII of England (m. 1533 – 1536)
Children: Elizabeth I of England (Daughter)
Buried: Church of St Peter ad Vincula
Siblings: Mary Boleyn (Sister) · George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (Brother)
Parents: Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (Father) · Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (Mother)
Highlights
  • 1514: Anne stayed with Margaret from spring 1513 until her father arranged for her to attend Henry VIII’s sister Mary, who was about to marry Louis XII of France in October 1514.

  • 1520: She married William Carey, a minor noble, in February 1520, at Greenwich, with Henry VIII in attendance; soon after, Mary Boleyn became the English King’s mistress.

  • 1529: George Cavendish, Wolsey’s chamberlain, records that the servants who waited on the king and Anne at dinner in 1529 in Grafton heard her say that the dishonour that Wolsey had brought upon the realm would have cost any other Englishman his head.

  • 1529: Convinced that Wolsey’s loyalties lay with the Pope, not England, Anne, as well as Wolsey’s many enemies, ensured his dismissal from public office in 1529.

  • 1533: Anne Boleyn married Henry VIII of England on January 25, 1533; their marriage lasted 3 years till May 17, 1536.

  • 1536: Author Mike Ashley speculated that Anne had two stillborn children after Elizabeth’s birth and before the male child she miscarried in 1536.

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Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees at bat in 1939 (© Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images)(1939) Yankee’s ‘Iron Horse,’ Lou Gehrig, ends game streak
First baseman Lou Gehrig benches himself following a record-smashing 2,130 consecutive games played with his baseball team, the New York Yankees. Gehrig will soon be diagnosed with a fatal case of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or what will come to be known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Henry Louis “Lou” or “Buster” Gehrig was an American baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, from 1923 through 1939. Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, a trait that earned him his nickname “The Iron Horse”. He was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League Most Valuable Player twice, and a member of six World Series champion team. He had a career.340 batting average, .632 slugging average, and a.447 on base average. He hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in. In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number retired by a team.
Lived: Jun 19, 1903 – Jun 02, 1941 (age 37)
Height: 6′ 0″ (1.83 m)
Spouse: Eleanor Gehrig (m. 1933 – 1941)
Movies: Rawhide
Buried: Kensico Cemetery
Parents: Heinrich Gehrig (Father) · Christina Fack (Mother)
Highlights
  • 1923: A native of New York City and attendee of Columbia University, Gehrig signed with the Yankees in 1923.

  • 1925: In 1925, he batted .295, with 20 home runs and 68 runs batted in (RBIs).

  • 1926: The 23-year-old Yankee first baseman’s breakout season came in 1926, when he batted .313 with 47 doubles, an American League-leading 20 triples, 16 home runs, and 112 RBI.

  • 1933: In September 1933, Gehrig married Eleanor Twitchell (1904 or 1905–1984), the daughter of Chicago Parks Commissioner Frank Twitchell.

  • 1939: After six days of extensive testing at the Mayo Clinic, doctors confirmed the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) on June 19, 1939, which was Gehrig’s 36th birthday.

  • 1941: On June 2, 1941, at 10:10 p.m., Gehrig died at his home at 5204 Delafield Avenue in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York.

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May 1945 photo showing Soviet soldiers hoisting the red flag over the Reichstag in Berlin (© Yevgeny Khaldei/ITAR-TASS/AP)(1945) The Fall of Berlin heralds the beginning of the end of WWII
Soviet Red Army forces raise their flag over the former Nazi high command center, the Reichstag building, as the Battle of Berlin comes to an end. In the months to come, the German capital will be divided into Allied zones, with the USSR controlling East Berlin.
The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II. Following the Vistula–Oder Offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line 60 km east of Berlin. On 9 March, Germany established its defence plan for the city with Operation Clausewitz. The first defensive preparations at the outskirts of Berlin were made on 20 March, under the newly appointed commander of Army Group Vistula, General Gotthard Heinrici.
Start date: Apr 16, 1945
End date: May 02, 1945
Battle of Berlin 1945
Battle of Berlin 1945

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The BOAC Comet taxiing onto the runaway at London Airport on May 2, 1952 (© Reg Speller/Getty Images)(1952) The jet airliner takes its first commercial flight
After years of testing and development, British airline BOAC welcomes passengers to the jet age as the De Havilland Comet 1 takes off from London for Johannesburg, South Africa. Although the route will make five stops, and take 21 hours and 20 minutes, it’s about 50 percent faster than conventional aircraft.
The de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world’s first commercial jetliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland at its Hatfield Aerodrome, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom headquarters, the Comet 1 prototype first flew on 27 July 1949. It featured an aerodynamically clean design with four de Havilland Ghost turbojet engines buried in the wings, a pressurised fuselage, and large square windows. For the era, it offered a relatively quiet, comfortable passenger cabin and showed signs of being a commercial success at its 1952 debut.
Passengers: 81
Maiden flight: Jul 27, 1949
Length: 112 feet (34.14 m)
Wingspan: 115 feet (35.05 m)
Introduced: Jan 22, 1952
Maximum speed: 500 mph (804.67 km/h)

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