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Events
- 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
- 1638 - Swedish colonists establish the first settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
- 1847 - Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
- 1936 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
- 1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- 1971 - A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
- 1973 - Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
- 2004 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
Births
- 1746 - Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1785)
- 1790 - John Tyler, tenth President of the United States (d. 1862)
- 1799 - Edward Smith-Stanley, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
- 1899 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist (d. 1953)
- 1912 - Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
- 1916 - Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
- 1943 - Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Deaths
- 1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
- 1912 - Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)
