1911 - The Czech-born Austrian composer Gustav Mahler died. He had completed nine symphonies and several song cycles, notably "Das Lied von der Erde"...
1900 - A small British cavalry force finally relieved the garrison under Colonel Robert Baden-Powell at Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in South Africa after 217...
1926 - Jozef Pilsudski led a successful military coup in Poland.
1943 - The German commander in North Africa, General von Arnim, surrendered in World...
1943 - U.S. amphibious forces landed on Attu in the Aleutians, the first American territory to be recaptured from the Japanese.
1949 - Israel admitted...
1904 - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, British-born journalist and African explorer, died. He was famous for his rescue of the Scottish missionary explorer David...
