1865 - The CSA surrenders Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana to the United States.
1871 - The first professional baseball league begins its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1910 - The Canadian navy is founded.
1945 - British soldiers liberate a Nazi concentration camp near Hamburg, Germany.
1946 - U.S. Marines quell a prison riot at Alcatraz, California.
1970 - The Army National Guard kills four people at a university in Kent, Ohio.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
1982 - A British warship is hit by an Argentine missile during the Falklands War.
1990 - Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1998 - The Unabomber is sentenced to life in prison.
2003 - A tornado hits the U.S. state of Kansas.
2013 - Several NATO soldiers are killed in the War in Afghanistan.
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