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Events
- 1541 - Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River
- 1861 - Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
- 1945 - The defeat of Europe (8 May 1945)
- 1970 - The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with anti-war demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
Births
- 1884 - Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972)
- 1918 - John Birch, American Military Intelligence Officer and a Baptist Missionary (d. 1945)
- 1941 - James Traficant, American politician
- 1970 - Naomi Klein, Canadian journalist
Deaths
- 1936 - Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)
- 1988 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (b. 1907)
- 2014 - Robert Stuart, Jr. – diplomat, businessman, and founder of the America First Committee (b. 1916)
