O0526-Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die
1453-Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
1864-Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
1905-Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania
1943-Meat & cheese rationed in US
1949 Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC
1951-First North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
1959-Charles de Gaulle forms French Government
1968-U.N. resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia
1973-Thomas Bradley elected first black mayor of Los Angeles, Calif.
1977-Sue Press is first woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one
1989-Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty
1990-Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic
1994-Great comet-iceball seen above North Sea