May 28, 1533: English reformer Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, declares King Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn valid, having earlier approved the king’s divorce of Catherine of Aragon.
May 28, 1841: Edwin Moody dies, leaving his wife to raise 4-year-old Dwight Lyman and eight other children. D.L. Moody went on to become the leading American evangelist of his generation.
May 28, 1954: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill adding the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.
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