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Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
Christian feast day: Saints of the Cristero War, including Christopher Magallanes
The Imperial War Graves Commission was established by royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of British Empire military forces.
American Civil War: The inconclusive Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia ended with combined Union and Confederate casualties totaling around 31,000.
Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
World War II: Germany's Flensburg Government under Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are arrested by British forces.
World War II: German paratroopers start a series of mass executions of Greek civilians in Missiria for their participation in the ongoing Battle of Crete.
World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
The Third Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.