1521    Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.

1944    World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.

1950    Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.

1972    Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.

1997    Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

2008    A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.