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This is a good entry for de León, but his article is still a stub.

--mav 04:18, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Oops. Juan Ponce de León was already featured last week for sighting Florida. -- PFHLai 07:19, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)

Candidates

1801 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen - The British destroy the Danish fleet.
1865 - American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1902 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States , opens in Los Angeles, California.
1982 - Falklands War: Argentina invades the British-owned Falkland Islands starting the war.
1993 - Doom alpha version 0.4 is finished.
2002 - Israeli forces surrounded the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem which has around 200 Palestinians inside. A siege ensues.