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[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- 1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
- 1937 - William Gillette, actor (b. 1853)
- 1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
- 1957 - Belle Baker, American 1920s torch singer, film & television actress, (b. 1893)
- 1966 - William Eccles, physicist, radio pioneer
- 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, director (b. 1899)
- 1988 - James McCracken, American opera tenor
- 1993 - Mick Ronson, British musician
- 1997 - Mike Royko, columnist (b. 1932)
- 2005 - William J. Bell, soap opera creator, writer, producer (b. 1927)
[edit] Events
- 1429 - Battle of Orléans: French troops led by Joan of Arc lifted the English siege of Orléans, a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
- 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 begins as the first college for African American students.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to split from the Union
- 1862 - American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
- 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.
- 1944 - "Dancing Romeo," the last Our Gang film, is shown for the first time.
- 1945 - World War II: The German Army in Italy surrenders (gives up) to the Allies.
- 1945 - Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and decides that Admiral Karl Dönitz will be the next ruler.
- 1945 - Holocaust: The Dachau concentration camp is freed by United States troops.
- 1946 - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are accused of war crimes.
- 1967 - After refusing to go into the United States Army the day before (because of religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
- 1969 - Jazz musician Duke Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- 1970 - Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces go into Cambodia to hunt NLF soldiers.
- 1974 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon annouces the release of edited word copies of White House tape recordings that deal with the scandal.
- 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind – The last U.S. citizens begin to leave Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States part in the war comes to an end.
- 1992 - 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the release of police officers charged with too much strength and 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, and makes the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons illegal.
- 2002 - The United States is re-elected (chosen again) to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
- 2004 - Richard Cheney and George W. Bush talk to the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded trial in the Oval Office.
- 2005 - JAG, the longest running military drama in U.S. television history, airs its last show.
