02/05/10

Anne Boleyn was arrested on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft in 1536.  Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955.  Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Myanmar in 2008, killing 130,000 and leaving millions homeless.

Born today:  Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Vernon Castle (1887-1918), Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), Peggy Mount (1915-2001), Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), Theodore Bikel (1924), Luis Suárez Miramontes (1935), Jacques Rogge (1942), Judge Dread (1945), Lesley Gore (1946), David Suchet (1946), Alan Titchmarsh (1949) and David Beckham (1975).

It is Teachers' Day in Iran.