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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 1, 1914, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels issued General Order 99 banning alcoholic beverages from Navy vessels, yards and stations, effective July 1, 1914.
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• On this date:
• In 1533, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.
• In 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state of the union.
• In 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
• In 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812.
• In 1868, James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, died near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at age 77.
• In 1915, the T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was first published in "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse" in Chicago.
• In 1939, the British submarine HMS Thetis sank during a trial dive off North Wales with the loss of 99 lives. Lou Nova defeated Max Baer at Yankee Stadium in the first U.S. televised heavyweight prizefight. Mexico officially abolished the siesta.
• In 1943, a civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by Germany during World War II, killing all 17 people aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
• In 1958, Charles de Gaulle became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the Fourth Republic.
• In 1968, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who'd earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf almost all of her life, died in Westport, Connecticut, at age 87.
• In 1979, the short-lived nation of Zimbabwe Rhodesia came into existence.
• In 1989, former Sunday school teacher John E. List, sought for almost 18 years in the slayings of his mother, wife and three children in Westfield, New Jersey, was arrested in Richmond, Virginia. (List was later sentenced to life in prison; he died March 21, 2008.)
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• Ten years ago: A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringed on women's right to choose. (The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law in April 2007.) Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer (GAH'-zee MAH'-shahl uh-JEEL' ahl-YOW'-ur), a powerful Sunni Muslim tribal leader and critic

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