1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861:
Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington.
1861:
President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports.
1927:
In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek.
1938:
General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War.
1943:
Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising.
1951:
I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle.
1951:
General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war.
1952:
The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home.