Today:
1486 – King Henry VII of England married Elizabeth of York, uniting the houses of Lancaster and York and effectively ending the Wars of the Roses.
1671 – Pirate Henry Morgan captured Panama City after crossing the Isthmus of Panama.
1778 – Captain James Cook became the first known European to visit the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the “Sandwich Islands.”
1871 – The German Empire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, marking the unification of Germany under King Wilhelm I of Prussia.
1896 – The X-ray machine was exhibited for the first time by German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen.
1911 – Eugene Ely landed a plane on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania, marking the first successful aircraft landing on a ship.
1919 – The Paris Peace Conference began, which led to the Treaty of Versailles and the end of World War I.
1943 – Soviet forces announced the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad after breaking through German encirclement.
1974 – A court ruling in the United States allowed the publication of the Pentagon Papers, a classified report on the Vietnam War.
1983 – The International Olympic Committee restored Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals from the 1912 games, which had been stripped due to his amateur status.
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