BonBagay.com::On This Day

1533 England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

1892 The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.

1934 Quintuplets - Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne - were born to Elzire Dionne in Ontario, Canada.

1937 Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.

1940 The Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces during World War II.

1957 The National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.

1977 Fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky., killing 165 people.

1984 President Ronald Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. (The remains were later identified as those of Air Force Lt. Michael J. Blassie.)

1985 David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers.

1987 Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.

1996 President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.

1998 Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts.

1998 Comic actor Phil Hartman of "Saturday Night Live" and "NewsRadio" fame was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.

2002 NATO declared Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.

2003 President George W. Bush signed a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts.

2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chose Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.

2006 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on the career list and move into second place behind Hank Aaron.

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