254 Election of Pope Stephan I (254-257), later canonized
1082 Battle of Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia defeats Leopold II of Austria
1167 Battle of Monte Porzio: Frederick Barbarossa defeats the forces of Pope Alexander III
1264 Three day battle of Lewes begins: Earl Simon de Montfort of Leicester defeats & captures King Henry III of England
1328 Pietro Rainalducci becomes anti-Pope as "Nicholas V" (1328-30)
1607 Foundation of Jamestown, Virginia
1629 The Piedmontese capture Trino from the Mantuans
1649 Naval Battle of Focchies: Venetians defeat the Turks
1780 British capture Charleston
1789 NYC Revolutionary War veterans form the Society of St Tammany
1795 Battle of Nu'uanu: Kamehameha unifies Hawaii [Est]
1796 Bonaparte abolishes the 820 year old Republic of Venice
1797 Mutiny in the British Fleet at the Nore (subdued June 16)
1815 Austrians overwhelm the Neapolitan 12th Regt, north of Itri
1863 Battle of Raymond, Miss
1864 Atlanta Campaign: Widespread skirmishing around Dalton
1879 War of the Pacific - Battle of Iquiqui: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvians
1881 Treaty of Bardo: Tunis becomes a French protectorate
1885 Battle of Batoche: French Canadians rebel against Canada
1888 Brazil abolishes slavery, the last western nation to do so
1898 US forces land at Cabañas & Punta Arbolitas, Cuba
1898 US Navy bombards San Juan, P.R.
1917 Tenth Battle of the Isonzo begins (to May 28)
1926 Umberto Nobile's airship 'Norge' flies over the North Pole
1937 George VI crowned King of England
1940 French occupy St Maarten, Netherlands West Indies
1940 Germans force a crossing of the Meuse River near Sedan
1941 Charles Henry George Howard, the Earl of Suffolk, c. 35, and his party, killed while defusing a bomb -- Learn More
1943 Solomons: USN shells Vila and Munda, mines Kula Gulf
1943 Trident Conference: Roosevelt and Churchill plan strategy
1945 Okinawa: major Kamikaze attack, BB 'New Mexico' (BB-40) badly hit.
1951 The first H-Bomb test, Eniwetak Atoll
1975 US merchant ship 'Mayaguez' seized by Cambodian forces
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