American Revolution
Elias Boudinot is born, 1740
Automotive
GM buys Chevrolet, 1918
Civil War
Confederates deliver blow to Union at Chancellorsville, 1863
Cold War
Joseph McCarthy dies, 1957
Crime
A grisly crime leads to rubber gloves, 1924
Disaster
Sandstorm in Egypt kills 12, topples buildings, 1997
General Interest
Hudson's Bay Company chartered, 1670
Madrid revolts against French rule, 1808
End of an era at the FBI, 1972
Osama bin Laden killed by U.S. forces, 2011
Hollywood
Iron Man released, 2008
Literary
Manuscript of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Conversations at Midnight destroyed in hotel fire, 1936
Music
Dick Clark survives the Payola scandal, 1960
Old West
John B. Jones becomes major in Texas Rangers, 1874
Presidential
George W. Bush forms commission on Social Security, 2001
Sports
Gehrig ends streak, 1939
Vietnam War
U.S. ship sunk in Saigon port, 1964
Joint forces continue attack into Cambodia, 1970
World War I
Allies argue over U.S. troops joining battle on Western Front, 1918
World War II
German troops in Italy surrender to the Allies, while Berlin surrenders to Russia's Zhukov., 1945
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