** Gustav Adolf Land

** The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah ( Hebrew:, Latinized ha ' shoah ; Yiddish:, Latinized churben or hurban ) is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators.

** Geli Raubal commits suicide in Adolf Hitler's apartment.

** Adolf Hitler orders that all industries, military installations, machine shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.

** Adolf Hitler concedes defeat in his underground Berlin bunker after learning Felix Steiner could not mobilize enough men to launch a counterattack on the Soviets who had just broken through Germany.

** Adolf Brand, German writer ( b. 1874 )

** Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator ( suicide ) ( b. 1889 )

** Eva Braun, German wife of Adolf Hitler ( suicide ) ( b. 1912 )

** Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal ( d. 1962 )

** Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity by a panel of 3 Israeli judges.

** While working as a spy for the police, Adolf Hitler is ordered to monitor the German Workers Party.

** Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1914 )

** Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch ( he serves only 8 months ).

** Adolf Hitler makes his first public political speech, in Austria.

** World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring " living space " for the German people ( recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum ).

** Erich Kempka, German chauffeur and bodyguard of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1975 )

** King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates and is later exiled.

** WWII: Adolf Hitler makes a peace appeal to Britain in an address to the Reichstag.

** Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi official ( executed ) ( b. 1906 )

** Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1959 )

** King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden ( b. 1882 )

** Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1918 )

** Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.

** Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler prohibits trade unions.

** Hitler advises Jozef Tiso to declare Slovakia's independence in order to prevent its partition by Hungary and Poland.

** The Reichstag passes a statement stating that Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring should be appointed as Hitler, s succesor as Führer should Hitler die in the middle of the Second World War. Rudolf Hess is to be appointed in Göring, s place should anything befall Göring.

** German surrender of Paris: General Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Allies in defiance of Hitler ’ s orders to destroy it.

** Hamburg Radio announces that Hitler has died in battle, " fighting up to his last breath against Bolshevism.

** Arthur Axmann, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader ( b. 1913 )

** Rita Haub / Heinrich Schreiber, " Alfred Delp-Held gegen Hitler " (" Alfred Delp – Hero Against Hitler "), Echter Verlag Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-429-02665-2

** William Patrick Hitler nephew of Adolf Hitler.

** Princess Fawzia of Egypt marries Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.

** Crown Prince Harald of Norway marries Sonja Haraldsen, the commoner he has dated for 9 years, in Oslo.

** David Eisenhower, grandson of former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, marries Julie Nixon, the daughter of US President-elect Richard Nixon.

** King Baudouin of Belgium marries Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragon.

** Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.

** Actress Marilyn Monroe marries playwright Arthur Miller.

** John Ronald Reuel Tolkien marries Edith Bratt ( they would serve as the inspiration for the fictional characters Lúthien and Beren ).

** Juan Carlos of Spain marries the Greek Princess Sophia in Athens.

** Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.

** Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, marries Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Tsar Alexander III of Russia.

** Princess Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.

** January – Harold II marries Edith, daughter of Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia, and widow of Welsh ruler Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.

** Paul Revere marries Rachel Walker, his second wife.

** Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.

** The agreement reorganizing the Byzantine Empire's affairs is finalized as Anna of Savoy's son John V Palaiologos marries Kantakouzenos ' 15-year-old daughter Helena.

** Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman in London.

** Elton John marries studio engineer Renate Blauel.

** The Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde marries Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr.

** Paul Anka marries Marie-Ann DeZogheb

** Rosie O ' Donnell marries her partner Kelli Carpenter at San Francisco City Hall.

** May 8: father marries Dorothea Patton, loved " as a companion, a friend, and a mother.

** Mendo I Gonçalves ( also known as Hermenegildo Gonçalves, son of Count Gonçalo of Galicia ) marries Mumadona Dias ( daughter of Onega Lucides and Diogo Fernandes ) and becomes Count of Portugal.

** Henry of Burgundy marries Alfonso VI of Castile's illegitimate daughter Teresa of León.

** King Afonso I of Portugal marries Maud of Savoy, daughter of Amadeus III, Count of Savoy and Maurienne.