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This Day in History
1160: Emperor Frederick Barbarossa hurtles prisoners, including children, at the Italian city of Crema, forcing its surrender.

1238: The Mongols take over Vladimir, Russia.

1865: President Lincoln meets with a delegation of Confederate officials to discuss a possible peace agreement. Lincoln refuses to grant the delegation any concessions, and the president departs for the north.

1904: Colombian troops clash with U.S. Marines in Panama.

1917: A German submarine sinks the U.S. liner Housatonic off the coast of Sicily. The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany.

1920: The Allies demand that 890 German military leaders stand trial for war crimes.

1944: The United States shells the Japanese homeland for the first time at the Kurile Islands.

1944: American forces invade and take control of the Marshall Islands, long occupied by the Japanese and used by them as a base for military operations.

1945: The Allies drop 3,000 tons of bombs on Berlin.

1945: The month-long Battle of Manila begins.