| 1813 | | Jane Austin publishes Pride and Prejudice. |
| 1861 | | Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state. |
| 1862 | |
William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders
attack Danville, Kentucky. |
| 1918 | | The Supreme Allied Council meets at Versailles. |
| 1926 | | Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first African-American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 1931 | | Winston Churchill resigns as Stanley Baldwin's aide. |
| 1942 | | German and Italian troops take Benghazi in North Africa. |
| 1944 | | The world's greatest warship, Missouri, is launched. |
| 1950 | | Riots break out in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the policy of Apartheid. |
| 1967 | | Thirty-seven civilians are killed by a U.S. helicopter attack in Vietnam. |
| 1979 | | President Jimmy Carter commutes the sentence of Patty Hearst. |
| 1984 | | President Ronald Reagan announces that he will run for a second term. |
| 1984 | | The Soviets issue a formal complaint against alleged U.S. arms treaty violations. |
| 1991 | |
Iraqi forces attack into Saudi Arabian town
of Kafji, but are turned back by Coalition forces. |
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