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• 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
• 1568 - Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.

• 1779 - War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the a part of its territory that was taken from them (the Innviertel).
• 1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
• 1830 - Ecuador gains its independence.

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• 1846 - Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
• 1848 - first performance of Finland's national anthem.

• 1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch - In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the civil war ends with a Union victory.

• 1888 - Brazil abolishes slavery.

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• 1912 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) in established.
• 1913 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a four engine aircraft.
• 1917 - Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Irianear near Fatima, Portugal.
• 1940 - World War II: Nazi Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the British House of Commons.
• 1943 - World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.

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• 1960 - First ascent of Dhaulagiri, 7th highest mountain
• 1969 - Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the May 13 Incident
• 1981 - Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Rome.

• 1998 - Following India's second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on the nation.

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