1471 Battle of Tewksbury: Yorkists defeat the Lancastrians, making Edward IV King of England
1481 Neapolitans liberate Otranto from the Ottomans
1493 Pope Alexander VI divides the America between Spain & Portugal
1540 Treaty of Constantinople, between Venice and Turkey
1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from the Indians, for a lot more than $24
1652 Battle of Etampes: Turenne's French Royal Army defeats the Fronde rebels
1799 English capture Seringapatam, India.
1814 Bourbon Restoration in France; Louis XVIII "the Unavoidable" becomes king (1814-1815, 1815-1824)
1858 Mexican War of Reform: The Juaristas establish a capital at Vera Cruz
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville: Army of the Potomac withdraws
1864 U. S. Grant crosses the Rapidan to begin the Overland Campaign
1865 Confederate Lt Gen Richard Taylor surrenders to Maj Gen Edward Canby, at Citronelle, Ala
1865 Lincoln is laid to rest in Springfield, Ill
1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen in a still unsolved crime
1891 Sherlock Holmes falsely reported dead at Reichenbach Falls
1898 U.S. landing party skirmishes with Spanish troops at Guanoy, Philippines
1912 Italians capture Rhodes from the Turks
1916 Germany abandons unrestricted submarine warfare, at the "request" of the US
1917 "The Mayflower Returns" - US destroyers reach Ireland, to join the U-Boat war
1917 Arab rioters sack the Jewish settlement of Tel Aviv
1942 Corregidor subject to an intense artillery and aerial bombardment.
1942 USS "Yorktown" (CV-5) raids Japanese at Tulagi, damaging a destroyer.
1945 British ships bombard Japanese in the Sakishimas, off Okinawa
1945 German troops in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway surrender
1946 US Marines recapture Alcatraz from rioting prisoners
1970 Ohio National Guard kills four students at Kent State
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