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James W. Marshall
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| 1438 – The Council of Basel suspended Pope Eugene IV and pronounced him deposed the following year, giving rise to a new schism by electing Amadeus VIII of Savoy as an antipope. | needs cleanup, more footnotes |
| 1639 – The Fundamental Orders, the first written constitution in North American history, were adopted in Connecticut. | unreferenced section |
| 1891 – Prime Minister John Ballance began his term with his Liberal Party, the first political party in power in New Zealand. | refimprove |
| 1924 – Three days after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the City of Petrograd, founded by Peter the Great of Russia in 1703, was renamed Leningrad. | refimprove section; best moved to May 27 (date of founding) |
| 1977 – During the Spanish transition to democracy, neo-fascists attacked an office near the Atocha railway station in Madrid, where specialists of labour law, members of the Workers' Commissions trade union, and of the then Communist Party of Spain had gathered, killing five people and injuring four others. | Tagged with ((refimprove)) |
Eligible
- 1857 – The University of Calcutta, the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent, was established.
- 1900 – Second Boer War: Boer forces stopped a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
- 1961 – A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina; one bomb was recovered intact, the other disintegrated.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Binh and Bien Hoa.
- 1972 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
- 1978 – The Soviet nuclear powered satellite Kosmos 954 burned up during reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories.
- 1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu was assassinated by a car bomb outside his home in Ankara.
- 2009 – Klaus, the most damaging storm since Lothar and Martin in December 1999, made landfall near Bordeaux, France.
- 41 – Cassius Chaerea and the disgruntled Praetorian Guards murdered Roman emperor Caligula (bust pictured), replacing him with his uncle Claudius.
- 1458 – The 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus was unanimously proclaimed King of Hungary, after the Estates were persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi.
- 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, leading to the California Gold Rush.
- 1989 – American serial killer Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair in Florida for the homicides of at least 30 women.
- 2011 – A suicide bomber killed at least 37 people at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow.