1626: Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in Cloth and buttons.
1715: A French manufacturer debuts the first folding umbrella.
1776: Rhode Island declares independence from England.
1795: Thousands of rioters enter jails in Lyons, France, and massacre 99 Jacobin prisoners.
1814: Napoleon Bonaperte disembarks at Portoferraio on the Island of Elba in the Mediterranaen.
1863: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends when Union Army retreats.
1864: Union General Ulysses S. grant’s forces cross the Rapidan River and meet Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army.
1927: A balloon soars over 40,000 feet for the first time.
1930: Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British.
1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea commences.
1942: The United States begins food rationing.
1961: 13 civil rights activists, dubbed freedom Riders, begin a through the South.
1970: Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on student protesters at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others.
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