311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of
Christians in the Roman Empire ends
1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United
States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than
doubling the size of the young nation.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary
Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at
Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1943 – World War II: Operation
Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the
coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and
dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf
Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet
soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
2009 – Chrysler files for Chapter 11
bankruptcy.
2009 – Seven people are killed and 17
injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted
assassination on Queen Beatrix.
2009 – Azerbaijan State Oil Academy
shooting: Twelve people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed
attacker.
2013 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands.
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