2004
Same-sex marriage first made legal in the U.S.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared the right for citizens to have same-sex marriages.
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1783
England proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States.
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1787
Shays's Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, was defeated.
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1789
George Washington and John Adams are elected the president and vice president of the United States.
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1861
Delegates from six southern states met at Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
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1945
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at the Yalta Conference.
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1948
Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from the United Kingdom.
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1969
The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasir Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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1974
Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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1976
Benjamin Britten, British composer, died.
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2003
The country of Yugoslavia disappeared, to be replaced by the loose federation of Serbia and Montenegro.
