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  218: 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet (Yes, you read that right. The year is 218.) 1536: Four men accused of being Anne Boleyn’s ‘lovers’ are executed, shortly before her own beheading 1590: Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland 1713: Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi’s first opera “Ottone in villa” opens at Teatro delle Grazie in Vincenza, Republic of Venice (now Italy) 1733: Great Britain passes the Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions 1824: The diaries of Lord Byron are burnt by six of the poet’s friends at the office of John Murray in London, sometimes described as the greatest crime in literary history 1861: The first color photograph was taken by Thomas Sutton, using James Clerk Maxwell’s three-color method 1881: Fredrick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia 1890: Pietro Mascagni’s opera “Cavalleria Rusticana” premieres in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi 1897: The first successful submarine was launched in the USA by its designer, John Philip Holland 1904: Maurice Ravel’s song cycle “Shéhérazade” premieres with Jeanne Hatto as soprano, at the Salle Nouveau Théâtre, Paris, France 1939: The Glenn Miller Orchestra begins a three-month engagement at the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, New York 1940: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France (It only gets worse from here.) 1942: Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler 1944: Allied air raid on Surabaya, Java 1944: US General Dwight Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5 1959: Sanctuary of Christ the King inaugurated, a 28 meter (92 ft) high monument and shrine overlooking Lisbon, Portugal by sculptor Francisco Franco de Sousa 1970: nonymous buyer purchases one of the pairs of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” for $15,000 at MGM Studio auction, and donates them to the Smithsonian Institution 1971: “Godspell” premieres off-Broadway 1974: Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet 2020: Former US President Barack Obama criticizes the US government’s handling of the pandemic during an online address to graduates, saying officials aren’t even pretending to be in charge (I mean he has a point.)