| | 1775 | 'The British are Coming!' Paul Revere rides. |
| | 1847 | Battle of Cerro-Gordo. Americans attack and defeat Santa Anna. |
| | 1941 | British forces land in Iraq. |
| | 1945 | Ernie Pile, World War II corespondent killed by machine gun fire on Okinawa. |
| | 1945 | 317,000 Germans surrender in the Ruhr pocket. Greatest German surrender of the war. |
| | 1957 | Nicaraguans capture town of Morocon, only to lose it two weeks later to Hondurans. |