1783 Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War.
1814 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he 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 is purchased by the U.S. Navy.
1912 RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for NY
1945 Four soldiers in the Sixth Armored Division of the US Third Army liberate the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald.
1951 US President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command in Korea.
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