1652: The Dutch establish a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.
1712: A slave revolt breaks out in New York City.
1798: The territory of Mississippi is organized.
1862: General Ulysses S. Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn.
1914: The British House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill.
1922: U.S. Secretary of Interior leases the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming.
1933: President Franklin Roosevelt signs legislation ending Prohibition in the United States.
1943: British and American armies link up between Wadi Akarit and El Guettar in North Africa, forming a solid line against the German army.
1945: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world’s largest battleship, is sunk during the battle for Okinawa.
1963: Yugoslavia proclaims itself a Socialist republic.
1971: President Nixon pledges a withdrawal of 100,000 more men from Vietnam by December.
1980: The United States breaks relations with Iran.
1983: Specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson make first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
1990: John Poindexter is found guilty in the Iran-Contra scandal.
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