1643: Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, is granted sole and absolute power as regent by the Paris parliament, overriding the late king’s will.
1652: A law is passed in Rhode Island banning slavery in the colonies but it causes little stir and seems unlikely to be enforced.
1792: Russian troops invade Poland.
1802: Britain declares war on France.
1804: Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the Emperor of France.
1828: The Battle of Las Piedras, between Uruguay and Brazil, ends.
1860: Abraham Lincoln is nominated for president.
1864: The fighting at Spotsylvania in Virginia, reaches its peak at the Bloody Angle.
1896: The Supreme Court’s decision on Plessy v. Ferguson upholds the "separate but equal" policy in the United States.
1904: Brigand Raizuli kidnaps American Ion H. Perdicaris in Morocco.
1917: The U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service act, calling up soldiers to fight World War I.
1931: Japanese pilot Seiji Yoshihara crashes his plane in the Pacific Ocean while trying to be the first to cross the ocean nonstop. He is picked up seven hours later by a passing ship.
1933: President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Tennessee Valley Authority Act.
1942: New York ends night baseball games for the rest of World War II.
1944: The Allies finally capture Monte Cassino in Italy.
1951: The United Nations moves its headquarters to New York City.
1969: Two battalions of the 101st Airborne Division assault Hill 937 but cannot reach the top because of muddy conditions.
1974: India becomes sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
1980: After rumbling for two months, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington, erupts 3 times in 24 hours.
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