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| 1519 | Artist Leonardo da Vinci died. |
| 1670 | The Hudson Bay Co. was chartered by England's King Charles II. |
| 1863 | Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va. He died eight days later. |
| 1890 | The Oklahoma Territory was organized. |
| 1895 | Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart was born in New York City. |
| 1932 | Jack Benny's first radio show debuted on the NBC Blue Network. |
| 1939 | New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig's streak of 2,130 consecutive games played came to an end when the ailing slugger removed himself from the lineup. |
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| 1941 | General Mills began shipping a new cereal called "Cheerioats" to six test markets. (The cereal was later renamed "Cheerios.") |
| 1945 | The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria. |
| 1972 | J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI for 48 years, died at age 77. |
| 1982 | The Weather Channel debuted. |
| 1994 | Nelson Mandela claimed victory in South Africa's first democratic elections. |
| 1997 | Tony Blair became, at age 44, Britain's youngest prime minister in 185 years. |
| 2012 | Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in to Myanmar's military-backed parliament. |
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