0526 Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg
1861 Battle of Piketon, KY
1862 US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 The first export of goods from Burrard Inlet, B.C.on Canada's West Coast to a foreign country
1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
1904 First airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1913 a violent storm sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1914 HMAS Sydney sinks the German cruiser, Emden, at the Cocos Islands, Indian Ocean
1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedoes, killing 272
1918 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1923 Beer Hall Putsch-NAZIs fail to overthrow government in Germany
1927 Giant Panda discovered, China
1930 The first nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1938 "Kristallnacht" Anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria. 300,000 are arrested, 191 synagogues are destroyed, 7,500 shops are looted.
1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1939 Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes assassination when a bomb explodes in the historic Buergenbraeu Hall in Munich shortly after the Chancellor had left to return to Berlin.
1942 First 4,000 Lublin Jews are brought to be killed at the newly-organized camp at Majdanek, located outside Lublin.
1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1955 A Sikorsky HR2S helicopter, at Windsor Locks, Conn., carried a payload of 11,050 pounds to an altitude over 12,000 feet
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970 m
1963 450 die in a coal-dust explosion and 160 die in train crash (Japan)
