1572: The Sea Beggars under Guillaume de la Marck land in Holland capture the small town of Briel.
1578: William Harvey, English physician and Biologist was born.
1778: Oliver Pollock creates the dollar sign.
1863: The first wartime conscription law goes into effect in the United States.
1865: At the battle of Five Forks, Gen. Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
1905: Berlin and Paris are linked by telephone.
1918: England’s Royal Air Force is formed.
1920: Germany’s Workers Party changes its name to the Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis).
1924: Adolf Hitler sentenced to five years in prison for the “Beer Hall Putse.”
1928: China’s Chiang Kai-shek begins attacks on communists.
1929: The yo-yo is introduced in the United States by Louie Marx.
1939: The Spanish Civil War effectively ends with the official recognition of Franco’s government.
1942: The U.S. Navy begins a partial convoy system in the Atlantic.
1945: U.S. forces launch invasion of Okinawa
1948: The Berlin Airlift begins, relieving the surrounded city from the Soviet siege.
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