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Archduke Ferdinand and family
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| Constitution Day in Ukraine | stub |
| 1651 – Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Zaporozhian Cossacks began clashing with forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Berestechko in the Volhynia Region of present-day Ukraine. | refimprove section |
| 1776 – Thomas Hickey, a private in the Continental Army and bodyguard to George Washington, became the first person to be executed for treason against what was to become the United States. | refimprove section |
| 1880 – Police captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon Ned Kelly after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria. | lots of CN tags |
| 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed, formally ending World War I. | refimprove section |
| 1922 – The Irish Civil War began with an assault by the Irish Free State's National Army on the Four Courts building, which had been occupied by the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army. | refimprove section |
| 1967 – Israel annexed East Jerusalem, having captured it from Jordan in the Six-Day War. | expansion |
| 1981 – Seventy-three leading officials of Iran's Islamic Republican Party were killed when a bomb exploded at the party's headquarters in Tehran. | neutrality issues |
| 1992 – Japanese mountain climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to complete the Seven Summits. | appears on May 16 |
| 1997 – Mike Tyson bit off a portion of Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. | refimprove section |
| 2004 – The Coalition Provisional Authority dissolved after handing the governance of Iraq to the Iraqi Interim Government. | lots of CN tags (5) |
| 2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a local military coup following his attempt to hold a referendum to rewrite the constitution. | refimprove section |
| Muhammad Azam Shah |b|1653| | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
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- 572 – Alboin, king of the Lombards, was assassinated in a coup d'état instigated by the Byzantines.
- 1841 – Giselle, a ballet by French composer Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
- 1895 – The U.S. Court of Private Land Claims ruled that James Reavis's claim to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km2) of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
- 1904 – In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic, and sank, resulting in more than 635 deaths.
- 1911 – The first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars fell to Earth in Abu Hummus, Egypt.
- 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by a Yugoslav nationalist named Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
- 1942 – World War II: The German Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic summer offensive intended to knock the Soviet Union out of the war.
- 1950 – Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing at least 60,000 suspected North Korean sympathizers.
- 1969 – In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began to riot, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
- 1978 – In Regents of the Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, the U.S. Supreme Court barred quota systems in college admissions but declared that affirmative action programs giving advantage to minorities are constitutional.
- 1989 – President Slobodan Milošević gave a speech in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development.
- 1990 – Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3's look-and-feel interface in its own spreadsheet program.
- 2005 – War in Afghanistan: eleven U.S. Navy SEALs and eight American special operations soldiers were killed during a failed counter-insurgent mission in Kunar Province.
- Born/died: | James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley |d|1497| Primož Trubar |d|1586| William Hooper |b|1742| James Madison |d|1836| Charles Cruft |b|1852| Yvonne Sylvain |b|1907| Amira Hass |b|1956| Meralda Warren |b|1959| Franz Stangl |d|1971
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Province of South Carolina militia repelled a British attack on Charleston.
- 1846 – Belgian musician Adolphe Sax patented his design of the saxophone (example pictured).
- 1956 – Polish workers demanding better working conditions began massive protests in Poznań, but were later violently repressed by the Polish People's Army and the Internal Security Corps.
- 2016 – Gunmen attacked Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, killing 45 people and injuring more than 230 others.
- Pope Leo II (d. 683)
- Paul Broca (b. 1824)
- Martha Wise (d. 1971)