A Day to Remember

Louis XIV becomes king of France

Battle of Palmito Ranch (last battle of Civil War)

Siege of Charleston, American Revolution

Great Plains Dust Storm

V-E Day riots in Halifax

Robespierre introduces Cult of the Supreme Being, French Revolution

English Channel Tunnel opens

Mary Kies receives first patent issued to a woman in the US

Ferdinand VII abolishes Spain's constitution

Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland

Operation Mincemeat, WWII

Liberation of Dachau, WWII

Billy the Kid breaks out of jail

John Milton sells "Paradise Lost"

Founding of Library of Congress

First documented tornado in history, Ireland

Battle of Ypres, WWI, first widespread use of chemical weapons

Hans Oersted electromagnetism experiment

Castro announces Mariel boatlift

Catalpa Rescue, Australia

First public use of the term "Cold War"

April 15 becomes "tax day"

"Four Dead in Five Seconds" gunfight, El Paso

Roman Catholic Relief Act, UK

Maximilian I becomes emperor of Mexico

Death of Edward IV - Edward V (one of the "princes in the tower") becomes king of England

Discovery of Venus de Milo

First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis

Beginning of cannibalism trial of Alferd Packer

MLK "mountaintop" speech

Ponce de Leon sights Florida

Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses

Boston Port Act

Treaty for US purchase of Alaska from Russia

Naval Act of 1794 establishes US Navy

"Combat of the Thirty," Hundred Years War

First official tornado forecast

"The Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III, World War II

"OK" appears in print for the first time

Founding of Dutch East India Company

Invasion of Iraq

First electric shavers go on sale (Jacob Schick)

Bombing of Israeli embassy in Argentina

Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket

Confederacy approves arming black soldiers, Civil War

Great Blizzard of 1888

Queen Anne vetoes Scottish Militia Bill

Strowger patents automatic telephone switcher

Explorer Pedro Cabral departs Lisbon

Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to US