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 50 years of parliamentary rule

1888: American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine

1911: Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia and recovered in 1913

1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States

1991: Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days

Source: Onthisday.com