1536: Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason
1643: Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form the United Colonies of New England
1649: England is declared a Commonwealth by an act of the Rump Parliament making England a republic for the next 11 years
1885: German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland
1898: US Congress passes the Private Mailing Card Act, allowing private publishers and printers to produce postcards, had to be labelled “Private Mailing Cards” until 1901, known as “souvenir cards”
1919: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Black Sea coast, beginning the Turkish War of Independence
Source: Onthisday.com
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