1863 - Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Virginia; he died eight days later.
1519 - artist Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France.
1670 - the Hudson Bay Company was chartered by England's King Charles the Second.
1890 - the Oklahoma Territory was organized.
1936 - "Peter and the Wolf," a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow.
1945 - the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.
1957 - Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Republican senator from Wisconsin, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1960 - convicted sex offender and best-selling author Caryl Chessman was executed at San Quentin Prison in California.
1965 - the "Early Bird" satellite was used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.
1972 - after serving 48 years as head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover died in Washington at age 77.
1994 - Nelson Mandela claimed victory in the wake of South Africa's first democratic elections; President F.W. de Klerk acknowledged defeat.
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