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- +The '''Peninsular War''' was a contest between [[First French Empire|France]] and the allied powers of [[Spain]], the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]], and [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] for control of the [[Iberian Peninsula]] during the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. The war began when French armies invaded Portugal in 1807 and Spain in 1808 and lasted until the [[War of the Sixth Coalition|Sixth Coalition]] defeated Napoleon in 1814.
-==Events==+
-*[[1494]] – [[Christopher Columbus]] first sights land that will be called [[Jamaica]].+
-*[[1808]] – [[Peninsular War]]: The [[Madrid]] rebels who rose up on [[May 2]] are fired upon near [[Príncipe Pío]] hill.+
-*[[1915]] – The poem ''[[In Flanders Fields]]'' is written by Lieutenant Colonel [[John McCrae]].+
-*[[1916]] – The leaders of the [[Easter Rising]] are executed in [[Dublin]].+
-*[[1928]] – [[Japan]]ese atrocities in [[Jinan Incident|Jinan]], [[China]].+
-*[[1937]] – ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'', a [[novel]] by [[Margaret Mitchell]], wins the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]].+
-*[[1938]] - Hitler arrives in Rome to sign an alliance with Mussolini, the chance meeting between two fictional characters in ''[[Un Giornata Particolare]]'' takes place on [[May 8]].+
-*[[1938]] - [[American cinema]], [[United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.]] ruled in the United States.+
-*[[1960]] – The [[Off-Broadway]] [[musical comedy]], ''[[The Fantasticks]]'', opens in [[New York City]]'s [[Greenwich Village]], eventually becoming the longest-running [[musical theatre|musical]] of all time.+
-*[[1968]] - ''[[The First International Exhibition of Erotic Art]]'' opens in [[Lund]], Sweden.+
-*[[1978]] – The first unsolicited bulk commercial [[e-mail]] (which would later become known as "[[Spam (electronic)|spam]]") is sent by a [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] marketing representative to every [[ARPANET]] address on the west coast of the United States.+
-*[[2003]] – [[New Hampshire]]'s famous [[Old Man of the Mountain]] collapses.+
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-==Births==+
-*[[1469]] – [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)+
-*[[1877]] – [[Karl Abraham]], German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)+
-*[[1903]] – [[Bing Crosby]], American singer and actor (d. 1977)+
-*[[1906]] – [[Mary Astor]], [[Academy Award]]-winning American actress (d. 1987)+
-*[[1919]] – [[Pete Seeger]], American singer+
-*[[1933]] – [[James Brown]], American singer and dancer (d. 2006)+
-*[[1934]] – [[Georges Moustaki]], Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter+
-* 1934 – [[Frankie Valli]], American singer ([[The Four Seasons (group)|The Four Seasons]])+
-*[[1940]] – [[Conny Plank|Konrad "Conny" Plank]], German record producer and musician+
-*[[1959]] – [[David Ball (musician)|David Ball]], English musician ([[Soft Cell]])+
-*[[1965]] – [[Rob Brydon]], Welsh comedian+
- +
-==Deaths==+
-*[[1481]] – [[Mehmed II]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (b. 1432)+
-*[[1616]] – [[William Shakespeare]], English writer and actor (b. 1564) (his death is commonly accepted to be on [[April 23#Deaths|April 23]], according to the [[Julian calendar]])+
-*[[1987]] – [[Dalida]], French singer (b. 1933)+
-*[[1989]] – [[Christine Jorgensen]], American transsexual (b. 1926)+
-*[[1991]] – [[Jerzy Kosiński]], Polish-born writer (b. 1933)+
-*[[2006]] – [[Karel Appel]], Dutch painter (b. 1921)+
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The Peninsular War was a contest between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French armies invaded Portugal in 1807 and Spain in 1808 and lasted until the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814.



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