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2015
2015 – A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2013
2013 – National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
2013
2013 – A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2011
2011 – The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
2004
2004 – The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production.
1997
1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
1992
1992 – Riots in Los Angeles begin, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1991
1991 – The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
1991
1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
1986
1986 – An assembly of Sikhs, known as a Sarbat Khalsa, officially declared independence for a state of Khalistan.
1986
1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
1986
1986 – A fire at the Central library of the Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
1985
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on STS-51-B.
1975
1975 – Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnam-held Trường Sa Islands.
1975
1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1974
1974 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1970
1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
1967
1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1953
1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1952
1952 – Pan Am Flight 202 crashes into the Amazon basin near Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil, killing 50 people.
1946
1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
1945
1945 – Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
1945
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
1945
1945 – World War II: Airdrops of food begin over German-occupied regions of the Netherlands.
1945
1945 – World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.
1916
1916 – Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
1916
1916 – World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
1911
1911 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
1910
1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
1903
1903 – A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
1864
1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
1862
1862 – American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
1861
1861 – Maryland in the American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
1826
1826 – The galaxy Centaurus A or NGC 5128 is discovered by James Dunlop.
1781
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
1770
1770 – James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
1760
1760 – French forces commence the siege of Quebec which is held by the British.
1521
1521 – Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a Danish force in the Battle of Västerås.
1483
1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
1429
1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
1091
1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
801
801 – An earthquake in the Central Apennines hits Rome and Spoleto, damaging the basilica of San Paolo Fuori le Mura.