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Polish–Soviet War: Kyiv offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-off�
World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the Ger�
American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.
Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Berlin-Karlshorst comes into effect.
World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula.
World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington.
World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
Wesley Coe, American shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (died 1926)
Nikolai Reek, Estonian general and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of War (born 1890)
Construction workers attacked students and others who were protesting the Vietnam War in New York City.
A parade in Sétif, French Algeria, celebrating the end of World War II in Europe became a riot and was followed by reprisals, carried out by colonial authorities over the following weeks, that killed�
World War II: The Axis launched a major counteroffensive, turning the tide of the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.
Greek War of Independence: At the Battle of Gravia Inn, a 120-man Greek force led by Odysseas Androutsos repulsed an Ottoman army of 8,000 soldiers.