TODAY IN HISTORY

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305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.

524 – King Sigismund of Burgundy is executed at Orléans after an 8-year reign and is  succeeded by his brother Godomar.

1862 – American Civil War: The Union Army completes the Capture of New Orleans.

1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begin.

1884 – Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.

1927 – The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.

1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.

2009 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.

2011 – Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.

2011 – Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has been killed by United States special forces inAbbottabad, Pakistan. Due to the time difference between the United States and Pakistan, bin Laden was actually killed on May 2.

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