1242: Russian troops repel an invasion by Teutonic knights.
1614: Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1792: George Washington casts the first presidential veto.
1843: Queen Victoria proclaims Hong Kong a British crown colony.
1861: Gideon Wells, the Secretary of the Navy issues official orders for the
1865: As the Confederate army approaches Appomattox, it skirmishes with Union forces at Amelia Springs and Paine’s Cross Road.
1908: The Japanese Army reaches Yalu River as Russians retreat.
1919: Eamon de Valera becomes president of Ireland.
1930: Mahatma Ghandi defies British law by making salt in India instead of buying it from the British.
1941: German commandos secure docks along the Danube River in preparation for Germany’s invasion of the Balkans.
1943: The British 8th Army attacks the next blocking position of the retreating Axis forces at Wadi Akarit.
1951: Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage.
1955: Winston Churchill resigns as British prime minister.
1986: A bomb explodes in a West Berlin disco packed with American soldiers.
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