1689: French and English navies battle at Bantry Bay.
1690: In the first major engagement of King William’s War, British troops from Massachusetts seize Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) from the French.
1745: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy.
1792: The Columbia River is discovered by Captain Robert Gray.
1812: British prime Minster Spencer Perceval is shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons.
1857: Indian mutineers seize Delhi.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1860: Giuseppe Garibaldi lands at Marsala, Sicily.
1862: Confederates scuttle the CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia.
1864: Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern.
1960: Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
1967: The siege of Khe Sanh ends, the base is still in American hands.
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