1913<\/strong> – Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper.<\/p>\n 1916<\/strong> – Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities in Dublin.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – Germany’s Western Front offensive ended in World War I.<\/p>\n 1924<\/strong> – An open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba.<\/p>\n 1927<\/strong> – Construction of the Spirit of St. Louis was completed for Lindbergh.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – The Boston Bees agreed to change their name to the\u00a0Braves.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – The German Army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – In a bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married. Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company’s stockholders that IBM was building “the most advanced, most flexible high-speed computer in the world.” The computer was unveiled on April 7, 1953, like the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – Ernest Borgnine made his network television debut in “Night Visitor” on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – ABC\u2019s “Wide World of Sports” premiered.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – Phil Donahue\u2019s TV show, “Donahue” moved to Chicago,\u00a0IL.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Nixon\u00a0announced he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Steve Carlton, of the Philadelphia Phillies, became the first left-handed pitcher in the\u00a0major leagues\u00a0to get 3,000 career strikeouts.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – In California, the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor went online after a long delay due to protests.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Billy Martin was brought back, for the fourth time, to the position of manager for the\u00a0New York Yankees.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox set a\u00a0major-league baseball\u00a0record by striking out 20 Seattle Mariner batters.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – The Baltimore Orioles set a new\u00a0major league baseball\u00a0record by losing their first 21 games of the season.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev promised more religious freedom.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township,\u00a0NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris which granted Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – Former CIA Director William Colby was missing and presumed drowned after an apparent boating accident in\u00a0Maryland. Colby’s body was later recovered.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and was dishonorably discharged.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first\u00a0U.S.-Russian space walk.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S., Canada, and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in NAFTA trade.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Brazil announced a plan to protect a large area of Amazon forest. The area was about the size of Colorado.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Kelsey Grammer and his production company, Grammnet Inc., were ordered to pay more than $2 million in unpaid commissions to his former talent agency.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) filed a lawsuit against Best Buy Co. Inc., that claimed the store did not have permission to use his likeness in a print ad.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – NATO expelled two Russian diplomats from NATO headquarters in Brussels over a spy scandal in Estonia. Russia’s Foreign Ministry criticized the expulsions.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> – The White Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-2 at Camden Yards. The game was played without a crowd present due to the ongoing riots and protests in Baltimore. 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