1783 Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War after the Continental Congress proclaims the "Cessation of Arms" against and His Britannic Majesty.
1814 Napoléon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
1868 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.
1900 The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland, USS Holland is acquired by the U.S. Navy.
1912 RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for NY
1933 Hermann Goering becomes Premier of Prussia.
1945 Four soldiers in the Sixth Armored Division of the US Third Army liberate the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, freeing thousands including Elie Wiesel.
1979 Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya.
1981 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him.
1983 In the first 'supergrass' trial in Northern Ireland, fourteen Ulster Volunteer Force members are jailed for a total of two hundred years.
1990 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
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