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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. |