is Monday, May 15, the 135th day of 2006. There are 230 days left in the year.

In 1536, Anne Boleyn, wife of king Henry VIII, and her brother, Lord Rochford, were tried and found guilty in England of adultery and incest.

In 1602, Bartholomew Gosnold, English navigator, discovered Cape Cod on the coast of what is now Massachusetts.

In 1916, the Sykes-Picot agreement between Britain and France carved up the Arab regions of the former Ottoman empire.

In 1923, Britain formally recognided Transjordan as independent state under Emir Abdullah.

In 1930, Ellen Church, the first US airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

In 1940, the Netherlands surrendered to Germany in the Second World War; nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States.

In 1948, the one-day-old state of Israel was attacked by Egyptian planes and invaded by troops from Lebanon and Transjordan.

In 1970, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police open fire during student protests.

In 1988, the Soviet Union began the process of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, more than eight years after Soviet forces had entered the country.

In 1994, aid officials reported that the death toll may have reached 200,000 in Rwanda, where Hutus had been on a campaign of genocide against minority Tutsis since April 6.

In 1998, to international condemnation, India declared itself a nuclear nation after five bomb tests the same week.

?He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.? ? Armenian proverb.