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Carnegie Hall opens in New York with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
The siege at the Iranian Embassy in London ends as British SAS and police storm the building.
West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers.
Christopher Columbus lands on Jamaica on his second voyage to the New World.
The Seven Years' War ends when Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
The French Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
King Charles I surrenders to Scotland.
General Ignacio Zaragoza leads the Mexican army to unlikely victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla.
Singer Adele is born in Tottenham, London.
Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes the ruler of the Mongol Empire.
Cy Young of Boston pitches a perfect game against Philadelphia A's (3-0).
John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee.
American Jesse Owens sets the long jump record at 26' 8½'.
Admiral Karl Dönitz orders all German U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 becomes the first American in space.
Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4.
Actress Angelina Jolie weds actor Billy Bob Thornton in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena.
Claude Choules, the last surviving World War I veteran, dies at 110.
The final episode of 'Married with Children' airs on Fox.