Todayâs Highlight in History: On May 19, 1967, the Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain, banning nuclear and other weapons from outer space as well as celestial bodies such as the moon. (The treaty entered into force in October 1967.) On this date: In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Englandâs King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery. In 1864, American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, 59, died in Plymouth, New Hampshire. In 1913, California Gov. Hiram Johnson signed the Webb-Hartley Law prohibiting âaliens ineligible to citizenshipâ from owning farm land, a measure targeting Asian immigrants, particularly Japanese.