On this date in

1526 The Battle of Mohacs resulted in, among other things, the partition of Hungary into the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy and Transylvania.

1632 John Locke was born.

1756 Frederick II of Prussia started the Seven Years War.

1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was born.

1842 The Treaty of Nanking was signed.

1877 Brigham Young died.

1898 Preston Sturges was born.

1907 The Quebec Bridge collapsed.

1915 Ingrid Bergman was born.

1920 Charlie Parker was born.

1924 Dinah Washington was born.

1936 John McCain was born.

1944 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees, in a ceremony liberating Paris from the Nazis.

1957 Sen. Strom Thurmond ended the longest filabuster in Senate history -- 24 hours and 18 minutes. He was filabustering a civil rights bill.

1965 Splashdown of Gemini 5.

1966 The Beatles performed their last full concert before paying fans, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

1991 The Soviet Union's parliament suspended all actitivities of the Communist party, effectively eliminating it.

1996 Dick Morris resigned as President Clinton's chief of staff when it was learned he permitted a prostitute to listen in on telephone conversations he had with the President.

2000 Pope John Paul II endorsed organ donations and adult stem cell research, but condemned human cloning and embryo experiments.

2002 Michael Skakel was sentenced to 20 years to life for the 1975 murder of a neighbor.

2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall at the Louisiana-Mississippi border, causing massive flooding in New Orleans, widespread damage along the Mississippi coast and killing 1,836 persons.