1865-Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination

1907-11,745 immigrants arrive at Ellis Island, N.Y.

1932-Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery

1939-Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact

1941-British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to Nazi's

1945-U.S. troops lands in Mindanao

1956-USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves

1958-Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens

1961-1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro

1964-Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)

1969-Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed

1971-People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman

1972-Revised Dutch Constitution proclaimed

1975-Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's 5-year war

1978-63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)

1983-In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters

1986-IBM produces first megabit-chip

1989-Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week

1991-Railroad workers go on strike in the U.S.

1991-Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for first time (3,004.46)

1993-Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney King's civil rights

1993-STS-56 (Discovery) lands