1945 Largest operation in WWII’s Pacific War, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb the Japanese island of Okinawa

1349 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt, Germany 1804 Civil Code of Napoleon adopted in France 1857

1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms 1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule 1890