1763 -  A  contingency of Native Americans under the Ottawa chief, Pontiac, attacked the British force at Detroit, initiating Pontiac's Rebellion.

1832 - After almost 17 centuries of, sometimes chaotic and multiple, fealty, Greece is recognized as an independent kingdom.

1915 - A German submarine torpedos the British liner, Lusitania, off the Irish coast as it returns from New York City on its way to Liverpool, England; nearly 1200 casualties.

1939 - Germany and Italy formed a military and political alliance, the Rome-Berlin Axis.

1945 - Prepatory to the celebration of U.S. President Harry Truman's 61st birthdate (born May 8 in Lamar, Missouri), at 02:41, in the SHAEF headquarters in Rheims, France, the Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signs special documents for the occasion. Later, London crowds mass in Trafalgar Square and up The Mall to Buckingham Palace, where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, appear on the balcony of the Palace to the cheering crowds. Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret wander, anonymously, in the crowds of London.*

*How's that for rewriting history, Webb -- factually speaking.

Sorry...
1. I admit I hadn't seen that post
however,
2. I didn't type in a date anywhere or I'd be sifting through a mess of listings. I already knew about these events except for the exact dates of Pontiac and Greece (but I'm part Native American, though not of the concerned tribes, and I happen to work for a Greek family). The main entry was from two different researches (Truman and VE-Day) which I very much condensed.
3. Nevertheless...