1598: Henry IV signs Treaty of Vervins, ending Spain’s interference in France.
1668: Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution in France.
1776: France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.
1797: A mutiny in the British navy spreads from Spithead to the rest of the fleet.
1798: The black General Toussaint L’ouverture forces British troops to agree to evacuate the port of Santo Domingo.
1808: The citizens of Madrid rise up against Napoleon.
1813: Napoleon defeats a Russian and Prussian army at Grossgorschen.
1863: Stonewall Jackson smashes Hooker’s flank at Chancellorsville, Virginia.
1865: President Andrew Johnson offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President
1885: King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State.
1890: The Territory of Oklahoma is created.
1919: The first U.S. air passenger service starts.
1923: Lieutenants Okaley Kelly and John Macready take off from New York for the West Coast on what will become the first successful nonstop transcontinental flight.
1941: Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country’s pro-German faction.
1942: Admiral Chester J. Nimitz, convinced that the Japanese will attack Midway Island, visits the island to review its readiness.
1945: Russian forces take Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting.
1946: Prisoners revolt at California’s Alcatraz prison.
1968: The U.S. Army attacks Nhi Ha in South Vietnam and begins a fourteen-day battle to wrestle it away from Vietnamese Communists.
1970: Student anti-war protesters at Ohio’s Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of campus.
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