• 455 - The Vandals plundered Rome.
• 1800 - The first smallpox vaccination was administered in North America.
• 1865 - Forces under General Edmund Kirby Smith became the last Confederate army to surrender in the American Civil War.
• 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: Italy became a republic and abolished the monarchy, exiling Umberto.
• 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.

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