This day in history

The British Government announces it is banning sports sponsorship by tobacco companies. 

In Hong Kong, a three-year-old boy dies from avian flu. He is the first victim as the disease spreads across the world.
 

Great Britain and France secretly reach an accord, known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, by which most of the Arab lands under the rule of the Ottoman Empire are to be divided into British and French spheres of influence at the end of the war.

Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth), is executed outside the Tower of London for alleged adultery.