Attila the Hun sacks Metz in Gaul.

Celluloid is awarded a patent.

An explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia kills twenty-nine coal miners.

James Earl Ray assassinates Martin Luther King, Jr.

the Italian Wars are ended by the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis.

Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

The Battle of Five Forks takes place during the American Civil War.