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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