1774 The British parliament passes first of the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston harbor until colonists would pay for damages following the Boston Tea Party.
1800 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London.
1815 Napoléon Bonaparte enters Paris after his escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.
1917 After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Woodrow Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war is inevitable.
1922 USS Langley is commissioned, US Navy's 1st aircraft carrier.
1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1942 General Douglas MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese-occupied Philippines.
1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks.
1972 Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded.
1993 IRA-bomb kills 3-year-old in Warrington, England.
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