1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street.
1897 The first successful submarine that can run submerged for any considerable distance and combines electric and gasoline engines is launched in the USA by its designer John Philip Holland.
1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling, the national-socialist party of Norway.
1943 Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th.
1961 Fidel Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers.
1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die.
2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef.
2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
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