1703 Edirne Incident: Turkish army ousts Sultan Mustafa II, replacing him with his brother Ahmed III, reducing the power of the Sultan
1772 King Gustav III of Sweden completes a coup d'état by adopting a new constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot, ending fifty years of parliamentary rule
1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine
1911 The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre Museum by Italian decorator Vincenzo Peruggia, recovered in 1913
1942 Walt Disney's animated movie "Bambi," based on the book by Felix Salten, is released
1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States
1986 Ian Botham takes his world-record 356th Test cricket wicket against New Zealand at The Oval
1991 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days
2001 "How You Remind Me" single released by Nickelback (Billboard Song of the Year 2002)
2015 First British unmanned drone hits a UK citizen outside a conflict: ISIS fighter Reyaad Khan in Raqqa, Syria
2020 Korean pop group BTS releases the single "Dynamite," the first video to be watched more than 100 million times in 24 hours on YouTube
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