1865 – Funeral services for Abraham Lincoln is held in the East Room of the White House.
1943 – In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
