1519: Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America.
1547: Charles V’s troops defeat the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg.
1558: Mary, Queen of Scotland, marries the French dauphin, Francis.
1792: Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes "La Marseilles". It will become France’s national anthem.
1800; The Library of Congress is established in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation.
1805: U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in Tripoli from the Barbary pirates.
1833: A patent is granted for first soda fountain.
1877: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1884: Otto von Bismarck cables Cape Town, South Africa that it is now a German colony.
1898: Spain declares war on United States, rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
1915: Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country.
1916: Irish nationalists launch the Easter Uprising against British occupation.
1944: The first B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas.
1948: The Berlin airlift begins to relieve surrounded city.
1953: Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1961: President John Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
1968: Leftist students take over Columbia University in protest over the Vietnam War.
1980: A rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages held in Iran fails when a plane collides with a helicopter in the Iranian desert.
1981: The IBM Personal Computer is introduced.
1989: Thousands of Chinese students strike in Beijing for more democratic reforms.
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