1176 - Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1259 - Christopher I of Denmark dies
1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1677 - Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
1727 - Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1790 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th US state.
1798 - United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
1814 - Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon I dies
1848 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th US
1864 - Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1903 - In the May coup d'état, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1914 - Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
1919 - Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
1919 - The Republic of Prekmurje founded.
1948 - Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
1950 - The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of Mount Everest.
1964 - The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1973 - Tom Bradley is elected the first African American mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1982 - Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1988 - US President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1990 - The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
Famous Birthdays
1630 - Charles II of England
1773 - Princess Sophia of Gloucester
1903 - Bob Hope, comedian and actor
1917 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
1926 - Abdoulaye Wade, 3rd President of Senegal
1940 - Farooq Leghari, 8th President of Pakistan
1942 - Kevin Conway, actor
1949 - Francis Rossi, singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 - John Hinckley, Jr., attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan
1959 - Rupert Everett, actor
1963 - Lisa Whelchel, actress
1973 - Mark Lee, guitarist and songwriter
1975 - Melanie Brown, singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1975 - Sarah Millican, comedian
1978 - Sébastien Grosjean, tennis player
1989 - Mathew Waters, actor
1991 - Kristen Alderson, actress
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