313 | | Licinius unifies the whole of the eastern Roman Empire under his own rule. |
1250 | | King Louis IX of France is ransomed. |
1527 | | Henry VIII of England and King Francis of France sign treaty of Westminster. |
1563 | | All Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI. |
1725 | | Spain withdraws from the Quadruple Alliance. |
1789 | | George Washington is inaugurated as the first U.S. president. |
1803 | | The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million. |
1812 | | Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state. |
1849 | | Giuseppe Garabaldi, the Italian patriot and guerrilla leader, repulses a French attack on Rome. |
1864 | | Work begins on the Dams along the Red River, which will allow Union General Nathaniel Banks' troops to sail over the rapids above Alexandria, Louisiana. |
1930 | | The Soviet Union proposes a military alliance with France and Great Britain. |
1931 | | The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens. |
1943 | | The British submarine HMS Seraph drops 'the man who never was,' a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain. |
1945 | | Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor. |
1968 | | U.S. Marines attack a division of North Vietnamese troops in the village of Dai Do. |
1970 | | U.S. troops invade Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas. |
1972 | | The North Vietnamese launch an invasion of the South. |
1973 | | Nixon announces the resignation of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and other top aides. |
1975 | | North Vietnamese troops enter the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon ending the Vietnam War. |
1980 | | Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London. |
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