1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI of England.
1788 - The French Parliament is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
1794 - Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
1821 - Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
1861 - American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1912 - Paramount Pictures is founded.
1933 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against the British rule in India.
1942 - World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
1945 - World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
1945 - End of the Prague uprising, today celebrated as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
1972 - Vietnam War – U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
1978 - First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
1980 - The eradication of smallpox is endorsed by the World Health Organization.
1984 - Thames Barrier officially opened.
1987 - The Loughgall Ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
Famous Birthdays
1326 - Joan I, Countess of Auvergne
1587 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy
1720 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1828 - Henry Dunant, businessman and social activist, founder of the Red Cross
1884 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States
1925 - Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 2nd President of Tanzania
1926 - Sir David Attenborough, broadcaster and naturalist
1935 - HH Princess Elisabeth of Denmark
1940 - Ricky Nelson, singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
1944 - Bill Legend, drummer
1955 - Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
1970 - Luis García, footballer
1978 - Matthew Davis, actor
1981 - Elizabeth Whitmere, actress
1987 - Felix Jones, footballer
1991 - Anamaria Tămârjan, gymnast
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