1968 U.S. Air Force
planes hit Nhi Ha, South Vietnam in support of attacking infantrymen
1961 Alan Shepard becomes
the first American in space
1945 Holland and Denmark
are liberated from Nazi control
1916 U.S. Marines invade
the Dominican Republic
1912 Soviet Communist
Party newspaper Pravda begins
publishing
1886 A bomb explodes on
the fourth day of a workers’ strike in Chicago
1865 The 13th
Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
1834 The first mainland
railway line opens in Belgium
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte
dies in exile on the island of St. Helena
1818 Karl Marx, German
philosopher (The Communist Manifesto, Das
Kapital) is born
1494 Christopher Columbus
lands on the island of Jamaica, which he names Santa Gloria
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