This day in history...

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In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking.

In 1931, King Alfonso XIII of Spain went into exile, and the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed.

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In 1945, during World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concertration camp Bergen-Belsen.

In 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived in Washington to begin a goodwill tour of the United States.

In 1989, 96 people died in a crush of soccer fan at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England.

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In 1879, Saint Bernadette, who'd described seeing visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, died in Nevers, France.

In 1912, Harriet Quimbly became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

In 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia after years of exile.

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In 1942, an air squadron from USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities

In 1945 famed American war correspondent Ernie Pyle, 44 was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa.

In 1946, the League of Nations went out of business

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In 1816, Charlotte Bronte, author of "Jane Eyre," was born in Thorton, England.

In 1960, Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasliia transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.

In 1975, South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after 10 years in offices.

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In 1509,Henry VIII became king of England following the death of his father Henry the VII.

In 1944, during World War II, U.S. forces began invading Japanese-held New Guinea with amphibious landings at Hollandia and Aitape.

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In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller used the term "America" on a world map to refer to the huge land mass in the Western Hemisphere, in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

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1788 - Maryland became the 7th U.S. State.

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In 1918, Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franc Ferdinand of Austria and the archduke's wife, Sophie, died in prison of tuberculosis.

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In 1948, the charter of the Organization of American States was signed in Bogota, Columbia.

In 1958, Britian's Life Peerages Act 1958 allowed women to become members of the House of Lords.

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In 1670, Hudson Bay Company was charted by England's King Charles II.

In 1936,"Peter and the Wolf," a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow.

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In 1818,political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia.

In 1821, Napolean Bonaparte, 51 died in exile on the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic.

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In 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.

In 1910, British King Edward VII died.

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In 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River.

In 1794, Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was executed on the guillotine during France's Reign of Terror.

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In 1883, Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset was born in Madrid.

In 1936, Italy annexed Ethiopia

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In 1774, Louis XVI acceded to the throne of France.

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In 1607, English colonists went ashore in Virginia to begin building a permanent settlement, named Jamestown after England's King James I.

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In 1948, hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Irag and Lebanon,

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In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

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In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.