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313 | Licinius unifies the whole of the eastern Roman Empire under his own rule. | |
1250 | King Louis IX of France is ransomed. | |
1527 | Henry VIII of England and King Francis of France sign the Treaty of Westminster. | |
1563 | All Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI. | |
1725 | Spain withdraws from the Quadruple Alliance. | |
1789 | George Washington is inaugurated as the first U.S. president. | |
1803 | The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million. | |
1812 | Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state. | |
1849 | Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian patriot and guerrilla leader, repulses a French attack on Rome. | |
1864 | Work begins on the Dams along the Red River, which will allow Union General Nathaniel Banks‘ troops to sail over the rapids above Alexandria, Louisiana. | |
1930 | The Soviet Union proposes a military alliance with France and Great Britain. | |
1931 | The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens. | |
1943 | The British submarine HMS Seraph drops ‘the man who never was,’ a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain. | |
1945 | Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor. | |
1968 | U.S. Marines attack a division of North Vietnamese troops in the village of Dai Do. | |
1970 | U.S. troops invade Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas. | |
1972 | The North Vietnamese launch an invasion of the South. | |
1973 | Nixon announces the resignation of Harry Robbins Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and other top aides. | |
1975 | Saigon falls as North Vietnamese forces gain control of the city. The Vietnam War formally ends as South Vietnam unconditionally surrenders. | |
1980 | Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London. |