1598: The Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots.
1775: Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act forbids trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland.
1861: After 34 hours of bombardment, Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
1864: Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia.
1902: J.C. Penny opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1919: British forces kill hundreds of Indian nationalists in the Amritsar Massacre.
1933: The first flight over Mount Everest is completed by Lord Clydesdale.
1941: German troops capture Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1943: Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial.
1945: Vienna falls to Soviet troops.
1960: The first navigational satellite is launched into Earth’s orbit.
1961: The U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa because of apartheid.
1964: Sidney Poitier becomes the first black to win an Oscar for best actor.
1970: An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing and jeopardizing the lives of the three-man crew.
1976: The U.S. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes.
1979: The world’s longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours.
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