Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is May 19. The Spanish Armada, assembled to invade England, set sail from Lisbon on this date in 1588. It turned out to be a disaster -- much of the Spanish fleet was scattered by storms and those warships that remained were easily defeated by the more maneuverable English ships with their better-trained crews. A number of Spanish sailors survived the battle and swam ashore, where they settled down with English wives. Advertisement Anne Boleyn lost her head, literally, on this date in 1536. The second of King Henry VIII's six wives and the mother of the future Queen Elizabeth I was beheaded for failing to give ol' Henry a male heir, and also for failing to quietly step aside while he lusted after one of Anne's ladies-in-waiting. A member of American "royalty" died on this date in 1994. Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was 64 when she lost her fight with cancer. And it was on this date in 1992 that Vice President Dan Quayle triggered a flap when he blasted the title character on the CBS-TV sitcom "Murphy Brown" for having a child out of wedlock. Quayle's condemnation was written into the show's season premiere episode that fall. Advertisement We now return you to the present, already in progress.
