1500: Pedro Cabal claims Brazil for Portugal.
1521: The Comuneros are crushed by royalist troops in Spain.
1661: Charles II is formally crowned king, returning the monarchy to Britain, albeit with greatly reduced powers.
1759: British forces seize Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe from France.
1789: President George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York.
1826: Missolonghi falls to Egyptian forces.
1856: Free Stater J.N. Mace in Westport, Kansas shoots pro-slavery sheriff Samuel Jones in the back.
1865: Union cavalry units continue to skirmish with Confederate forces in Henderson, North Carolina and Munsford Station, Alalbama.
1895: Russia, France, and Germany force Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.
1896: Motion pictures premiere in New York City.
1914: The Federals defeat Kansas City 9-1 in the first major league game to be played in Chicago’s Weeghman Park, later renamed Wrigley Field.
1915: The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA.
1920: The Turkish Grand National Assembly has first meeting in Ankara.
1924: The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill.
1945: The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin.
1950: Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists.
1954: The Army-McCarthy hearings begin.
1966: President Lyndon Johnson publicly appeals for more nations to come to the aid of South Vietnam.
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Senator Robert Kennedy.
1971: The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 10, becoming the first in Salyut 1 space station
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