1512 Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat the Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars 1783 Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean 1868 The Shogunate is abolished in Japan 1955 Chartered Air India plane the "Kashmir Princess" is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent 1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1979 Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya 2015 Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution | 
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