Events

2025 Three dead after shooting in Uppsala

2017 Landslide in Uzgen district, Kyrgyzstan buried 11 houses with 24 people in them

2017 Nearly 90 PKK, YPG rebels killed in cross-border airstrikes on Sinjar and Karacok: Turkish army

2017 Man knifed to death in south east London. 6th stabbing in week

2017 Military plane crashes in west Cuba, killing 8 members on board

2011 Prince William, 2nd in line to the throne, married Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey

2011 The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place in Westminster Abbey

1991 A deadly cyclone struck Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing 138,000 people & 10 million left homeless

1967 Muhammad Ali was stripped of his Heavyweight boxing title after refusing induction into the US army

1961 The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

1945 US troops liberated prisoners of Dachau Nazi concentration camp, near Munich

1945 Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker

1945 The German army in Italy surrendered 'unonditionally' to the Allies led by British Field Marshal Harold Alexander

1916 The Easter Rising ended when Irish independence fighters surrendered to British military authorities in Dublin

1884 Oxford University agreed to admit female students to exams. Women were still not awarded degrees

1859 Second Italian War of Independence begins

1429 French heroine Joan of Arc arrived at besieged city of Orleans to begin her victory over the English

375 Emperor Constantius II visits Rome

Events in other languages

2025 Bruņota laupīšana Vecrīgā

2023 В Умани российская ракета попала в девятиэтажный дом - 429-й день войны

2022 Krievijas iebrukums Ukrainā - 65.diena

2016 В Калужской области произошел взрыв на газопроводе

2000 Германия передала России фрагменты Янтарной комнаты

1982 Ķīnas iedzīvotāju skaits pārsniedz vienu miljardu

1982 W kancelarii sejmowej został złożony tzw. List 44 w proteście przeciwko represjonowaniu działaczy opozycyjnych

1968 «Три тополя на Плющихе»

1968 Na Broadwayu w Nowym Jorku odbyła się premiera musicalu Hair

1967 Вышел фильм «Неуловимые мстители»

1944 Vācu okupācijas iestāde,- Gestapo arestē LCP vadītāju Konstantīnu Čaksti

1924 Marka polska została zastąpiona złotym polskim jako obowiązującą walutą narodową

1924 Pirmā Latvijas valsts basketbola komandas spēle

1917 Valkā nodibina Latviešu zemnieku savienību

1839 Krievijas Imperatora lēmums par optiskā telegrāfa līnijas Sankt-Pēterburga - Varšava izveidi

1831 Bitwa pod Kiejdanami