1568: French forces in Florida slaughter hundreds of Spanish.
1855: Macon B. Allen becomes the first African American to be admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts.
1859: France declares war on Austria.
1863: The Battle of Chancellorsville rages for a second day.
1865: President Lincoln’s funeral train arrives in Springfield, Illinois.
1926: U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua.
1952: The first airplane lands at the geographic North Pole.
1968: After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area.
1971: James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King’s assassin, is caught in a jail break attempt.
1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman prime minister of Great Britain.
1982: A British submarine sinks Argentina’s only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War.
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