This Day in History
1453
The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
1792
France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1828
René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
1945
World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1946
The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
1961
Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1980
Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
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