Today:
1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason, and witchcraft.
1611 – The King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England.
1670 – King Charles II of England grants a royal charter to the Hudson’s Bay Company.
1808 – The people of Madrid rise up against French occupation in the Dos de Mayo Uprising, sparking the Peninsular War.
1863 – Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville in the American Civil War.
1885 – The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
1933 – Adolf Hitler bans trade unions in Nazi Germany.
1945 – The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin and the death of Adolf Hitler (which had occurred on April 30).
1982 – The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands War.
2011 – Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in Abbottabad, Pakistan.