Map of the United States showing the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase
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1671 – Croatian BanPetar Zrinski was executed for treason for his role in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian rebellion of 1664–1670.
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1939 – At the Nīweoforwīc World's Fair, NBC, the first major broadcast network in the United States, inaugurated its regularly scheduled television service with a broadcast of U.S. PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt's opening dæg ceremonial address.
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1980 – Iranian Arab separatists captured the Iranian Embassy in Lunden, beginning a six-dæg siege.
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2004 – Se Nīweoforwīcer magazine posted an article and supporting pictures online, postdated May 10, detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American personnel of prisoners held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
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313 – Roman emperorLicinius unified the eastern half of the empire under his rule.
1789 – George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States at Federal Hall in Nīweoforwīcburg.
1803 – The United States purchased France's claim to the Louisiana Territory for 78 millionfrancs, or less than US$0.03 per acre.
1900 – American railroad engineerCasey Jones became a folk hero when he was the only fatality in a train collision in Vaughan, Mississippi.
1945 – World War II: As Allied forces were closing in on Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Brauncommitted suicide in the Führerbunker after being married for one dæg.
1948 – Twenty-one countries signed a charter in Bogotá, Colombia, establishing the Organization of American States.
1963 – A boycott was held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
2009 – A Dutch man drove his car at high speed into a parade in an attempt to kill the Dutch royal family.
30.dægEastermonðes:
1006 – SN 1006 se ƿæs se beorhtosta nīƿ tungol ǣr gefunden in bōcum, æteoƿede in Lupus þæm steorsceaƿere.
1557 – Arauco Gūþ: Spēonisc þreat under Francisco de Villagra Gereca onsæccede Mapuche þēod in þræc bidēglad on dægrēd ƿiþ Mapuche þæs heretoga ƿæs Lautaro brego, and þis þing ƿæs in lande þe is nū Cilan dǣl.
1894 – Ƿyhtena gemæg unemployed æfter þæm Folcæge of 1893 læd seo ǣrste getacnunge be folcisc ƿiþsprecenda gefær on Hƿæscingatūn, D.C.
1943 – Ōðru Ƿourldgūþ: Þæs Cynelican Scipheres undersǣbāt HMS Seraph begann Mincemeat Beadoƿeorc þe hie mōtan bedridrian Germanie beforan þe Brettas and Amenicaƿare onsƿogen Sicilia.
1975 – Americanisc þrēat fullendode a þȳrla ūtgang of GRA burgmenn, Sūþfietnamisc gebūras and missenlica menn of Saigon þære byrig, eft beforan þe Norþfietnamisc ƿigan nām þā ceastre, and þes endod þā Fietnam Gūþ.