| 1453 | | Constantinople falls to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire. |
| 1660 | | Charles II is restored to the English throne, succeeding the short-lived Commonwealth. |
| 1721 | | South Carolina is formally incorporated as a royal colony of England. |
| 1790 | | Rhode Island becomes last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution. |
| 1848 | | Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state. |
| 1849 | | A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln. |
| 1862 | | Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard retreats to Tupelo, Mississippi. |
| 1911 | | The first running of the Indianapolis 500. |
| 1913 | | The premier of the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in Paris causes rioting in the theater. |
| 1916 | | U.S. forces invade the Dominican Republic. |
| 1922 | | Ecuador becomes independent. |
| 1922 | | The U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport not subject to antitrust laws. |
| 1942 | | The German Army completes its encirclement of the Kharkov region of the Soviet Union. |
| 1951 | | C. F. Blair becomes the first man to fly over the North Pole in single engine plane. |
| 1953 | | Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest. |
| 1974 | | President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts. |
| 1990 | | Boris Yeltsin is elected the president of Russia. |
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