Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.
Happend on 20. May 1631
The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years War.
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