^B{^#!16!29 May^N! Feast day of St Cyril of Caesarea, St Bernard of Montjoux, St Theodosia of Constantinople, St Maximinus of Trier, Saints Sisinnius, Martyrius, and Alexander, and Saints William, Stephen, Raymund, and their Companions.
^B{862^B} Riurick (of Jutland) founded the first dynasty of Princes of Russia at Novgorod. ^B{1218^B} The Fifth Crusade landed outside Damietta, N Egypt. ^B{1453^B} Mohammed II, founder of the Ottoman empire, captured Constantinople; the Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI was killed and the Greek Empire finally extinguished. Constantinople became the Ottoman capital. ^B{1458^B} Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, defeated a Castilian fleet in the Channel. ^B{1848^B} Wisconsin became a US state. ^B{1940^B} The first British forces were evacuated from Dunkirk. ^B{1947^B} The Indian constituent assembly outlawed 'untouchability'.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}King Charles II of Great Britain, ^B{1630^B}; Louis Jean Marie Daubenton, French naturalist, ^B{1716^B}; Patrick Henry, US politician, ^B{1736^B}; LΘon Bourgeois, French politician, ^B{1851^B}; Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English novelist and critic, ^B{1874^B}; Bob Hope, US actor and comedian, ^B{1903^B}; John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the US, ^B{1917^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Bartholomew Diaz de Novaes, Portuguese navigator, ^B{1500^B}; David Beaton, Scottish politician, ^B{1546^B}; Cornelius Van Tromp, Dutch sailor, ^B{1691^B}; Humphry Davy, English scientist who invented a safety lamp for miners, ^B{1829^B}; John Lothrop Motley, US historian and diplomat, ^B{1877^B}; W S Gilbert, English playwright and librettist, ^B{1911^B}.
