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Events
- 1453 - Byzantine-Ottoman Wars: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 1660 - English Restoration: Charles II (on his birthday - see below) is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
- 1727 - Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1790 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the U. S. Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
- 1848 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
- 1903 - May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
- 1919 - Republic of Prekmurje founded
- 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest,
- 1954 - First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
- 1964 - The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian situation in Israel which leads to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
- 1990 - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian SFSR by the Russian parliament.
- 2004 - New Orleans Protocol is signed; organized by David Duke
- 2007 - The French section of Metapedia is launched [1]]
Births
- 1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685)
- 1736 - Patrick Henry, American patriot, statesman, and orator (d. 1799)
- 1874 - G. K. Chesterton, English journalist and author (d. 1936)
- 1880 - Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (d. 1936)
- 1903 - Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)
- 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
- 1955 - John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin
Deaths
- 1972 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and OSS spy (b. 1902)
- 1994 - Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b. 1912)
- 1998 - Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909)