1864 Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga.
1916 Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender unconditionally, marking the end of the Easter Rising.
1945 US Army liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
1946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.
1975 Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate its citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war.
1981 Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women).
1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate.
1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 comes into force, outlaws production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
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