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 * 1386 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania decisively won the Battle of the Vikhra River, forcibly making the Principality of Smolensk a vassal state.
 * 1760 – Seven Years' War: France began an unsuccessful attempt to retake Quebec City, which had been captured by Britain.
 * 1826 – In Parramatta, Australia, Scottish astronomer James Dunlop discovered Centaurus A (pictured), which was later recognised as one of the nearest radio galaxies to Earth.
 * 1910 – Parliament passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the express intent of redistributing wealth.
 * 1944 – Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne, France, becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive and the local Maquis group.
 * 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army liberated Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, and killed German prisoners of war.
 * 1968 – The controversial Broadway musical Hair, a product of the counterculture of the 1960s, opened, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
 * 1970 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese forces began the Cambodian campaign, aiming to attack North Vietnamese jungle bases.
 * 1991 – A powerful tropical cyclone struck Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving up to 10 million homeless across the region.
 * 1992 – The acquittal of policemen who had beaten African-American motorist Rodney King sparked six days of civil unrest in Los Angeles (damage pictured), during which 63 people were killed.
 * 1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons in the 87 countries that had ratified the convention.
 * 2011 – Watched by a worldwide television audience of tens of millions, Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married at Westminster Abbey in London.
 * 2015 – The ringleaders of the Bali Nine were executed in Indonesia for attempting to smuggle 8.3 kg of heroin to Australia in 2005.
 * Born/died this day: | Catherine of Siena |d|1380| Louis II of Anjou |d|1417| Thomas Cooper |d|1594| James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde |b|1665| Georgia Hopley |b|1858| Thomas Beecham |b|1879| Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman |b|1882| Harold Urey |b|1893| John Compton |b|1925| Rae Johnstone |d|1964| Uma Thurman |b|1970| Arthur B. C. Walker Jr. |d|2001