1450 | | Jack Cade's Rebellion--Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI. |
1541 | | Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River which he calls Rio de Espiritu Santo. |
1559 | | An act of supremacy defines Queen Elizabeth I as the supreme governor of the church of England. |
1794 | | The United States Post Office is established. |
1846 | | The first major battle of the Mexican War is fought at Palo Alto, Texas. |
1862 | | General 'Stonewall' Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley. |
1864 | | Union troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House to find the Confederates waiting for them. |
1886 | | Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca Cola. |
1895 | | China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki. |
1904 | | U.S. Marines land in Tangier, North Africa, to protect the Belgian legation. |
1919 | | The first transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes-off. |
1933 | | Hahatma Gandhi begins a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India. |
1940 | | German commandos in Dutch uniforms cross the Dutch border to hold bridges for the advancing German army. |
1942 | | The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends. |
1945 | | The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE (Victory Europe) day. |
1952 | | Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea. |
1958 | | President Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school. |
1967 | | Boxer Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army. |
1984 | | The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles. |
1995 | | Jacques Chirac is elected president of France. |
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