Source: HistoryNet.com
0254: St. Stephen I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
1588: King Henry III flees Paris after Henry of Guise triumphantly enters the city.
1641: The chief advisor to Charles I, Thomas Wentworth, is beheaded in the Tower of London
1780: Charleston, South Carolina falls to British forces.
1863: With a victory at the Battle of Raymond, Mississippi, Union General Ulysses S. Grant closes in on Vicksburg.
1881: Tunisia, in North Africa becomes a French protectorate.
1885: In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against the Canadian government.
1926: The Airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
1932: The body of Charles Lindbergh's baby is found.
1935: Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by "Bill W.," a stockbroker, and "Dr. Bob S.," a heart surgeon.
1940: The Nazi conquest of France begins with the crossing Musee River.
1942: The Soviet Army launches its first major offensive of the war, taking Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine.
1943: Axis forces in North Africa surrender.
1949: The Berlin Blockade ends.
1969: Viet Cong sappers try unsuccessfully to overrun Landing Zone Snoopy in Vietnam.