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1862: Confederate forces attack Union forces at Elthams Landing.

1864: Sherman advances toward Atlanta.

1864: Grant leaves the Wilderness for Spotsylvania.

1915: The British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland.

1945: The German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France.

1951: The Air Forces 3rd Air Rescue Squadron recovered its 50th behind-the-lines downed airman.

1952: Communist prisoners rioting at Koje-do held the U.N. commander, Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd, hostage until May 11. At Panmunjom both sides announced a stalemate over the prisoner of war issue.

1953: Communist negotiators at Panmunjom presented an eight-point proposal regarding the repatriation of POWs, including the establishment of a Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission.

1954: French held Dien Bien Phu falls to the Viet Minh.