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"The Old Gate", Tsinghua University
David Farragut
1991 Bangladesh cyclone
Ernst Werner von Siemens
Sir Francis Drake
Nancy Wake
Replica of HMS Endeavour
Buildings burned during the Los Angeles riots
Suicidal Tour team members; the marked players died on the tour
HMS Endeavour
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| International Dance Day | refimprove | ||
| 1587 – Anglo-Spanish War: In the Bay of Cádiz, Francis Drake led the first of several naval raids on the Spanish Armada that destroyed so many ships that Philip II of Spain had to delay his plans to invade England for over a year. | unreferenced section | ||
| 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces under David Farragut captured New Orleans, securing access into the Mississippi River. | inappropriate tone | ||
| 1882 – German inventor Werner von Siemens began operating his Elektromote, the world's first trolleybus, in a Berlin suburb. | refimprove sections | ||
| 1911 – Tsinghua University, one of the leading universities in mainland China, was founded, funded by an unexpected surplus in indemnities paid by the Qing Dynasty to the United States as a result of the Boxer Rebellion. | unreferenced section | ||
| 1916 – First World War: Khalil Pasha of the Ottoman Army accepted the surrender of Major-General Charles Townshend and the British Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, ending the Siege of Kut. | refimprove section | ||
| 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convened and indicted Hideki Tojo and 27 other Japanese leaders for war crimes. | unreferenced section | ||
| 1999 – Kosovo War: The Avala Tower on Avala mountain near Belgrade, Serbia, was destroyed by NATO bombardment in an attempt to put Radio Television of Serbia off the air. | refimprove | Anggun |b|1974| | unsourced filmography |
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- 1760 – Seven Years' War: France began an unsuccessful attempt to retake Quebec City, which had been captured by Britain.
- 1770 – On his first voyage, British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour (pictured) landed at Botany Bay, making the first recorded European landfall on the eastern coast of Australia.
- 1863 – Confederate forts at Grand Gulf survived a bombardment by Union gunboats, preventing Ulysses S. Grant's troops from crossing the Mississippi River at that point.
- 1903 – A rockslide buried part of the Canadian mining town of Frank under 110 million tonnes of rock, killing around 70 people.
- 1910 – Parliament passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the express intent of redistributing wealth.
- 1943 – After suffering train derailments, defections, and outbreaks of dysentery and typhoid fever which killed two members, the Brazilian football club Santa Cruz returned from their Suicidal Tour (team pictured).
- 1944 – Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne, France, becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive and the local Maquis group.
- 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army liberated Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, and killed German prisoners of war.
1945 – Second World War: Allied forces began dropping food into parts of the occupied Netherlands, with the acquiescence of the occupying German forces, to feed people who were in danger of starvation due to the Dutch famine.
- 1968 – The controversial Broadway musical Hair, a product of the counterculture of the 1960s, opened, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese forces began the Cambodian campaign, aiming to attack North Vietnamese jungle bases.
- 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnam concluded its East Sea Campaign by capturing all of the Spratly Islands held by South Vietnam.
- 1992 – The acquittal of policemen who had beaten African-American motorist Rodney King sparked six days of civil unrest in Los Angeles (damage pictured), during which 63 people were killed.
- 1995 – Before a crowd of about 165,000 at the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, Ric Flair and Antonio Inoki competed in the main event of Collision in Korea, the highest attended professional wrestling event of all time.
- 1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons in the 87 countries that had ratified the convention.
- 2006 – Cyclone Mala made landfall near Thandwe, Myanmar, causing 37 deaths.
- 2015 – The ringleaders of the Bali Nine were executed in Indonesia for attempting to smuggle 8.3 kg (18 lb) of heroin to Australia in 2005.
- Born/died this day: | Catherine of Siena |d|1380| Louis II of Anjou |d|1417| Thomas Cooper |d|1594| George Farquhar |d|1707| Samuel Turell Armstrong |b|1784| Thomas Beecham |b|1879| Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman |b|1882| Harold Urey |b|1893| Marietta Blau |b|1894| Tommy Cronin |b|1896| John Compton |b|1925| Willie Nelson |b|1933| Rae Johnstone |d|1964| Uma Thurman |b|1970| Anggun |b|1974| Arthur B. C. Walker Jr. |d|2001| Xochitl Gomez |b|2006| Giacomo dalla Torre |d|2020|
Notes
- Dachau concentration camp appears on March 22, so Dachau liberation reprisals should not appear in the same year
- Fall of Saigon/Operation Frequent Wind (1975) appears on April 30, so Cambodian Campaign and East Sea Campaign should not appear in the same year
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- 1386 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania decisively won the Battle of the Vikhra River, forcibly making the Principality of Smolensk a vassal state.
- 1826 – In Parramatta, Australia, Scottish astronomer James Dunlop discovered Centaurus A (pictured), which was later recognised as one of the nearest radio galaxies to Earth.
- 1922 - Sixteen-year-old Lilian Salkeld became the first woman to walk from London to Brighton.
- 1991 – A powerful tropical cyclone struck Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving up to 10 million homeless across the region.
- 2011 – Watched by a worldwide television audience of tens of millions, Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married at Westminster Abbey in London.
- James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (b. 1665)
- Georgia Hopley (b. 1858)
- Elisabeth Mills Reid (d. 1931)
- JJ (b. 2001)