89 BC Social War: Sulla captures Stabiae from the Italiotes
58 BC Cicero sails into exile from Brindisium
711 Tariq ibn Ziyad lands a Moorish army at Gibraltar for the Conquest of Visigothic Spain, initiating a war that ends in 1492 -- Learn More
1091 Battle of Monte Levunium: Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus defeats the Pechenegs
1289 Sultan Quala'un of Egypt captures Tripoli, Lebanon, from the Crusaders
1429 Joan of Arc beats the English at Orleans
1524 Battle of Sesia Romagnano: Spanish defeat the French
1616 Naval Battle of Euboea: Tuscans defeat the Turks
1661 Chinese troops occupy Taiwan
1670 Emilio Altieri elected Pope as Clement X (1670-1676)
1814 USS 'Peacock' captures HMS 'Epervier'
1856 The Crimean War ends -- Learn More
1861 Maryland House of Delegates votes against secession
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville begins
1898 Cienfuegos, Cuba: US and Spanish warships exchange fire
1901 Anti-Semitic riots in Budapest
1916 The Irish "Easter Rebellion" ends (from 16th)
1926 Franco-American accord on WW I war debts
1940 Norwegian King Haakon flees to England as the Nazis occupy his country
1942 Burma: Japanese capture Lashio
1942 Dutch and French Jews ordered to wear a yellow star
1943 Dietrich Bonhoffer is arrested by Nazis
1943 Teop, Solomon Is: USS 'Gato' (SS-212) lands coastwatchers & evacuates missionaries.
1945 Adolf Hitler makes an honest woman of Eva Braun
1945 Burma: Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
1945 RAF drops food to isolated areas in the Netherlands
1945 US liberates the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau
1946 Tokyo: 28 former Japanese leaders indicted as war criminals
1970 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1975 Last US personnel pull out of Vietnam
1991 Croatia declares independence from Yugoslavia
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