On this date in 1945, Deutschland signed an unconditional surrender in Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following day, thus ending the European conflict of World War Two.
On this date in 1970, Ohio soldiers shot students of Kent State University who protested the U.S.-Vietnam War, killing four students and wounding nine others.
On this date in 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance airplane and captured its pilot, Francis Powers.
