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1618:
The Thirty Years War begins.
1862: Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia. 1864: The campaign between Union commander Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, continues southward to the North Anna River around Hanover Junction. 1900: Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner. 1901: American forces capture Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo. 1915: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. 1945: Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS, assistant chief of the Gestapo, and architect of Hitlers program to exterminate European Jews, commits suicide one day after being arrested by the British. 1951: Eighth Army advanced toward the Kansas and Wyoming Lines to the base of the Iron Triangle against stiffening enemy resistance. By the end of May, the communists had suffered 17,000 killed and an equal number were taken prisoner. 1971: North Vietnamese demolition experts infiltrate the major U.S. air base at Cam Ranh Bay. 1972: Heavy U.S. air attacks that began with an order by President Richard Nixon on May 8 are widened to include more industrial and non-military sites. |
