Robert Browning 1812 - Poet, married to poet Elizabeth Barrett, Johannes Brahms 1833 - Composer and pianist, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 - Composer
Gabby (George Francis) Hayes 1885 - Actor, Eva (Evita) Peron 1919 - Actress, wife of Argentina President Juan Peron, subject of the Broadway musical and film "Evita", Jimmy Ruffin 1939 - Singer
1429 - The English siege of Orleans was broken by Joan of Arc.
1915 - The Lusitania, a civilian ship, was sunk by a German submarine. 1,201 people were killed.
1939 - Germany and Italy announced a military and political alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1940 - Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.
1942 - In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American navies attacked each other with carrier planes. It was the first time in the history of naval warfare where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other.
1945 - Germany signed unconditional surrender ending World War II. It would take effect the next day.
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. was founded. The company was later renamed Sony.
1998 - Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler Corp. for close to $40 billion. It was the largest industrial merger on record.
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