1587 ~ Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz Harbor.

1770 ~ Captain James Cook first spots Australia.

1772 ~ Birthday of David Ricardo, Economist.

1861 ~ A clash between pro-South civilians and Union troops in Baltimore, Maryland resulted in what is commonly accepted to be the first bloodshed of the American Civil War.

1927 ~ Birthday of Erma Bombeck, humorist.

1943 ~ German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, starting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

1956 ~ Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco.

1993 ~ A 50-day siege of the Branch Davidian complex outside Waco, Texas ends when a fire broke out. Eighty-one people died.

1995 ~ In retaliation for the deaths of the Branch Davidians in 1993, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is bombed, killing 168.

1999 ~ The German Parliament returns to Berlin.

Today is Primrose Day in England. Primroses are placed on the statue of Benjamin Disraeli in Parliament Square, London on the anniversary of his death in1881.

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