1541: Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River which he calls Rio de Espiritu Santo.
1559: An act of supremacy defines Queen Elizabeth I as the supreme governor of the church of England.
1794: The United States Post Office is established.
1846: The first major battle of the Mexican War is fought at Palo Alto, Texas.
1862: General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley.
1864: Union troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House to find the Confederates waiting for them.
1886: Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
1895: China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki.
1904: U.S. Marines land in Tangier, North Africa, to protect the Belgian legation.
1919: The first transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes-off.
1933: Mahatma Gandhi—actual name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—begins a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.
1940: German commandos in Dutch uniforms cross the Dutch border to hold bridges for the advancing German army.
1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.
1945: The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE (Victory Europe) day.
1952: Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea.
1958: President Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1967: Boxer Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.
1984: The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.
1995: Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.
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