1871-The Camp Grant Massacre of Apache Indians in Arizona Territory is committed by white and Mexican adventurers, 144 die
1880-The Metropolitan Museum's new premises opens at its current site at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey
1904-Ice cream cone makes its debut at St. Louis World's Fair invented by Ernest A. Hamwi (independently of other claimant Italo Marchiony in NY)
1945-Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his new wife Eva Braun in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin as the Red Army captures the city
1945-Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
1961-Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
1977-Human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo begin protesting at the forced disappearances of thousands, under the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla, in Buenos Aires
1985-"Shoah," French documentary about the Holocaust, directed by Claude Lanzmann, starring Richard Glazar and Raul Hilberg, premieres in Paris
1989-World Wide Web (WWW) is first launched in the public domain by CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee
1996-U.S. President Clinton approves the sale of $227 million of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; U.S. gas prices are at their highest levels in 5 years