Events1429 -
Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the
Siege of Orléans.1672 -
Franco-Dutch War:
Louis XIV of France invades the
Netherlands.
1770 -
James Cook arrives at and names
Botany Bay,
Australia.
1854 - The Ashmun Institute is officially chartered, becoming the first college for
African American students.
1861 -
American Civil War:
Maryland's
House of Delegates votes not to secede from the
Union.
1862 -
American Civil War:
New Orleans falls to
Union forces under
Admiral David Farragut.
1864 - The
Theta Xi fraternity is founded at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
Troy, New York.
1882 - The "
Elektromote" – forerunner of the
trolleybus – trialed by
Ernst Werner von Siemens in
Berlin.
1903 - A 30 million cubic-metre
landslide kills 70 in
Frank, Alberta,
Canada.
1910 -
Andrew Fisher becomes
Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
1916 -
Easter Rebellion:
Martial law in
Ireland is lifted and the
rebellion is officially over with the surrender of
Irish nationalists to
British authorities in
Dublin.
1945 -
World War II: The
German Army in
Italy unconditionally surrenders to the
Allies. 1945 -
World War II: Start of
Operation Manna.1945 -
Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner
Eva Braun in a
Berlin bunker and designates
Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. 1945 - The
Dachau concentration camp is liberated by
United States troops.
1946 - Former
Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former
Japanese leaders are indicted for
war crimes.
1951 - A
Tibetan delegation to the Chinese government was presented with a treaty draft regarding the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
1963 -
WWE Championship is created as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) World Heavyweight Championship.
1965 -
Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (
SUPARCO) successfully launches seventh
rocket in their Rehber series.
1967 - After refusing induction into the
United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons),
Muhammad Ali is stripped of his
boxing title.
1970 -
Vietnam War:
United States and
South Vietnamese forces invade
Cambodia to hunt
Viet Cong.
1974 -
Watergate Scandal:
President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of
White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
1975 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Frequent Wind: The last
U.S. citizens begin evacuation from
Saigon prior to an expected
North Vietnamese takeover.
U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1980 - Corazones Unidos Siempre
Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. founded.
1986 -
Roger Clemens sets a
major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the
Seattle Mariners.1986 - Fire at the Central library of the City of
Los Angeles Public Library, some 400,000 books and other items damaged or destroyed.
1991 -
1991 Bangladesh cyclone struck the
Chittagong district of southeastern
Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
1992 -
1992 Los Angeles riots:
Riots in
Los Angeles, California, follow the acquittal of
police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of
Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1997 - The
Chemical Weapons Convention of
1993 enters into force, outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of
chemical weapons among its signatories.
1999 -
Avala TV Tower near
Belgrade destroyed in
NATO bombing of
Yugoslavia.
2002 - The
United States is re-elected to the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
2004 -
Dick Cheney and
George W. Bush testify before the
9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the
Oval Office.
2004 -
Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2005 -
Syria completes withdrawal from
Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.2005 -
New Zealand's first
civil union takes place.
2007 -
Republic Protests in Turkey
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