The conquest marked the end of the Byzantine empire in 1961 the Duke of Edinburgh became the first member of the royal family to give a TV interview. In 1453 the city of Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman army of Sultan Mehmed II, and renamed Istanbul. Sanctions were imposed on both countries. The action was in response to tests by India. He served 14 months in prison in 1998 Pakistan conducted five underground nuclear tests in the Baluchistan region. He had wanted to build an “imaginary bridge” of peace between nations. Able died a few days later as a result of a medical procedure Baker died on Novemin 1987 Mathias Rust, an 18-year-old West German, flew a light aircraft undetected from Helsinki, Finland, and landed near Red Square in Moscow. They travelled 300 miles up and 1,500 miles over the Atlantic missile range from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The winner of the first race recorded an average speed of 38.21 mph in 1951 the Exhibition of Industrial Power was formally opened by Princess Elizabeth at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, part of the Festival of Britain in 1959 two monkeys, Able and Baker, were recovered unharmed after Nasa launched them into space in the nose cone of a Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile. In 1907 the International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy took place, now known as the Isle of Man TT race.
