The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
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Expansion of the European Union
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The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India
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Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
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American aviation pioneer (1875–1912)
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India
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Railway company in British India (1849–1951)
The Treaty of Rapallo
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Treaty re-establishing diplomatic and military relations between Russia and Germany
World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
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Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization (1929–45)
The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
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Land service branch of the U.S. military
World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin
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Soviet army and air force from 1918 to 1946
The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus
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1746 battle of the Jacobite rising of 1745
The Spithead mutiny begins
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Two mutinies by British sailors in 1797
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India
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Railway company in British India (1849–1951)
Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of “prayer and fasting” in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
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Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
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1939–1945 global conflict
King George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta in appreciation of their heroism.
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King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty
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Upper house of the US Congress
American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act
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1862 U.S. federal law ending slavery in DC
American Civil War: Battle at Lee’s Mills in Virginia.
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1861–1865 conflict in the United States
American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign
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Military campaign of the American Civil War
The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issues a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands from the old Kymi parish.
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Historical government body in Finland from 1816 to 1918