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| 1587 | Frances Drake raids Cadiz |
| 1775 | "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" |
| 1782 | Netherlands recognizes the US |
| 1861 | Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports |
| 1861 | Baltimore mob attacks the 6th Mass, 4 soldiers, c. 12 riolters die |
| 1864 | USS Kearsage sinks CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France |
| 1909 | Joan of Arc declared a saint |
| 1916 | Italians troops capture Col di Lana at Merano |
| 1919 | Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall |
| 1928 | Japanese troops occupy Shantung Peninsula in China |
| 1936 | Anti-Jewish riots in Palestine |
| 1941 | Milk rationed in Holland |
| 1941 | Bulgarian troops occupy Macedonia |
| 1941 | Marines begin construction of an airfield on Wake Is. |
| 1942 | British abandon the Yenangyuang oil fields in Burma |
| 1943 | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins; lasts until May 16. |
| 1943 | Sub Scorpion lays mines in Japanese waters |
| 1944 | New York: Massive rally protesting Nazi genocide. |
| 1944 | Japan reinforces drive against U.S. airbases in China. |
| 1945 | US offensive opens against the Shuri Line on Okinawa |
| 1948 | Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China |
| 1959 | Uprising in La Paz, Bolivia, fails |
| 1962 | NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 46,900 m |
| 1964 | Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier |
| 1971 | USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit |
| 1971 | Russia launches its 1st Salyut space station |
| 1989 | Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, 47 die |
| 1990 | Truce in Nicaraguan civil war |
| 1995 | Oklahoma City: Self-styled "patriot" detonates truck bomb, killing 168 |
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| 1505 | Burgundy: Jews are expelled by Philibert of Luxembourg |
| 1775 | American patriots begin siege of British in Boston |
| 1792 | Revolutionary France declares war on Austria, Prussia, & Sardinia |
| 1799 | Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews |
| 1809 | Napolean I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria |
| 1836 | Skirmish between Texian and Mexican outposts near San Jacinto |
| 1861 | Robert E Lee resigns from United States Army |
| 1861 | Union forces burn and adandon Gosport (Norfolk, Va) Navy Yard. |
| 1864 | Confederates capture 85th NY at Plymouth, NC |
| 1915 | US Navy issues its first contract for lighter-than-air craft. |
| 1919 | Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania, from Soviet Army |
| 1934 | Heinrich Himmler becomes head of the Prussian secret state police |
| 1936 | Jews repell an Arab attack, Petach Tikvah, Palestine |
| 1941 | German bombers raid Athens |
| 1942 | USS Wasp launches 47 British aircraft to reinforce Malta |
| 1942 | Heavy Axis air raids on Malta |
| 1942 | British forces in Burma begin a general withdrawal. |
| 1943 | Sub Runner lays mines off Hong Kong. |
| 1944 | Burma: Chinese New 38th Div ejects Japanese from terrain near Kamaing. |
| 1944 | India: British lift siege of Kohima, but Japanese hold the road to Imphal |
| 1945 | US Seventh Army captures Nuremberg, site of Nazi Party rallies |
| 1945 | Okinawa: U.S. forces capture Motobu Heights, in the north |
| 1945 | Burma: British close in on the Yenangyaung oil fields |
| 1947 | Peleliu: 27 Japanese troops surrender, 18 months after Japan surrendered |
| 1978 | Korean Airlines Flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace |
| 1987 | US deports Karl Linnas, charged with Nazi war crimes, to USSR |
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| 753 | -BC- Traditional date of foundation of Rome |
| 1738 | Algerian pirates raid the Bay of Naples |
| 1836 | Battle of San Jacinto: Texas secures independence from Mexico |
| 1861 | USS Saratoga captures slaver Nightingale, bound for the Confederacy |
| 1865 | Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington |
| 1898 | US Declares War on Spain |
| 1914 | US Marines and sailros occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico |
| 1941 | Greece surrenders to Nazi Germany |
| 1944 | TF 58 raids Hollandia, Wakde, to prepare for new landings. |
| 1945 | The Red Army reaches the outskirts of Berlin |
| 1945 | Japanese decide to abandon Rangoon and pull back in Burma to reorganize. |
| 1945 | Ie Shima Is, off Okinawa secured after five days fighting |
| 1954 | USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam |
| 1961 | USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m |
| 1961 | French army revolt in Algeria |
| 1967 | Military coup in Greece |
| 1967 | Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, seeks asylum in the US |
| 1975 | Nguyen Van Thieu resigns as president of South Vietnam |
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