1 of 7 | Israeli President Shimon Peres (R) meets Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu in his residence in Jerusalem on February 20, 2009. On May 29, 1996, in Israel's first selection of a prime minister by direct vote, Netanyahu defeated Peres. File Photo by Moshe Milner/UPI | License Photo
On this date in history:
In 1660, Charles II was restored to the English throne. It was also the monarch's 30th birthday.
In 1790, Rhode Island became the last of the original 13 states to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1914, the Canadian Pacific Transatlantic liner Empress of Ireland sank in the early-morning hours following a collision with the liner Storstadt, a much smaller vessel, in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence. More than 1,000 people died in what is the largest maritime accident in Canadian peacetime history.
