Patrick Henry 1736 - Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
- 1453 - Constantinople fell to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 1790 - Rhode Island became the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
- 1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
- 1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
- 1988 - U.S. President Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union in Moscow.
- 1990 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
- 2001 - In New York, four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
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