The last major battle of WWII took place.
The Battle of Berlin began on this day in the capital of Nazi Germany.
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Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel in an airplane.
The Apollo 16 mission launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Queen Anne knighted Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Martin Luther arrived at the Diet of Worms in Worms, Germany.
The Holy Roman Empire appointed a new supreme military commander, Albrecht von Wallenstein.
