1471: King Henry VI is killed in the Tower of London. Edward IV takes the throne.
1506: Christopher Columbus dies.
1536: The Reformation is officially adopted in Geneva, Switzerland.
1620: Present-day Martha’s Vineyard is first sighted by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold.
1790: Paris is divided into 48 zones.
1832: The Democratic party holds its first national convention.
1856: Lawrence, Kansas is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces.
1863: The siege of the Confederate Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins.
1881: The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.
1927: Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris completing the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic.
1940: British forces attack German General Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing his blitzkrieg of France.
1941: The first U.S. ship, the S.S. Robin Moor, is sunk by a U-boat.
1951: The U.S. Eighth Army counterattacks to drive the Communist Chinese and North Koreans out of South Korea.
1961: Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama.
1970: The U.S. National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.
1991: In Madras, India, a suicide bomber kills the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi.
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