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1572 | The Sea Beggars under Guillaume de la Marck land in Holland and capture the small town of Briel. | |
1778 | Oliver Pollock, creates the dollar sign. | |
1863 | The first wartime conscription law goes into effect in the United States. | |
1865 | At the Battle of Five Forks, Gen. Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive. | |
1868 | The Hampton Institute is founded in Hampton, Va. | |
1905 | Berlin and Paris are linked by telephone. | |
1918 | England’s Royal Air Force is formed. | |
1920 | Germany’s Workers Party changes its name to the Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis). | |
1924 | Adolf Hitler sentenced to five years in prison for the “Beer Hall Putsch.” | |
1928 | China’s Chiang Kai-shek begins attacks on communists. | |
1929 | The yo-yo is introduced in the United States by Louie Marx. | |
1939 | The Spanish Civil War effectively ends with the official recognition of Franco’s government. | |
1942 | The U.S. Navy begins a partial convoy system in the Atlantic. | |
1945 | U.S. forces launch invasion of Okinawa. | |
1946 | A miner’s strike in the U.S. idles 400,000 workers. | |
1948 | The Berlin Airlift begins, relieving the surrounded city from the Soviet siege. | |
1951 | United Nations forces again move northward across the 38th Parallel in Korea. | |
1954 | The U.S. Air Force Academy is founded in Colorado. | |
1968 | The U.S. Army launches Operation Pegasus, the reopening of a land route to the besieged Khe Sanh Marine base. | |
1970 | The U.S. Army charges Captain Ernest Medina for his role in the My Lai massacre. | |
1982 | The United States transfers control of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. |