1864-Battle of Gate Pā (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Māori warriors in Tauranga
1872-Jesse James' gang robs a bank of $1,500 in Columbia, Kentucky, killing bank employee Robert A.C. Martin during the crime
1916-Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender unconditionally, ending the Easter Rising
1945-U.S. Army liberates 31,601 people from the Dachau Nazi concentration camp in Germany
1975-U.S. begins to evacuate its citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the Vietnam War
1990-Wrecking cranes begin tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate
1991-Cyclone strikes the Chittagong district in Bangladesh, killing 139,000 people and leaving 10 million homeless
1997-Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 comes into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons among its signatories
Source: Korea Times News
