Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.
The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
World War II: The Red Army begins the Vistula-Oder Offensive.
Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing over 100,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
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