| 1242 | Russian troops repel an invasion by Teutonic knights. | |
| 1614 | Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. | |
| 1792 | George Washington casts the first presidential veto. | |
| 1843 | Queen Victoria proclaims Hong Kong a British crown colony. | |
| 1861 | Gideon Welles, the Secretary of the Navy issues official orders for the USS Powhatan to sail to Fort Sumter. | |
| 1865 | As the Confederate army approaches Appomattox, it skirmishes with Union forces at Amelia Springs and Paine's Cross Road. | |
| 1908 | The Japanese Army reaches Yalu River as Russians retreat. | |
| 1919 | Eamon de Valera becomes president of Ireland. | |
| 1930 | Mahatma Gandhi defies British law by making salt in India instead of buying it from the British. | |
| 1941 | German commandos secure docks along the Danube River in preparation for Germany's invasion of the Balkans. | |
| 1943 | The British 8th Army attacks the next blocking position of the retreating Axis forces at Wadi Akarit. | |
| 1951 | Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage. | |
| 1955 | Winston Churchill resigns as British prime minister. | |
| 1986 | A bomb explodes in a West Berlin disco packed with American soldiers. historynet.com |
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