1815 – Ex-king Joachim Murat of Naples sentenced to death
1861 – Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union’s Richmond on Mississippi
1864 – War of the Triple Alliance begins with Brazilian troops under the command of Gen. João Propício Mena Barreto invading Uruguay
1879 – British troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan
1933 – Gangster George Francis Barnes, aka Machine Gun Kelly, is sentenced to life imprisonment
1935 – Cole Porters musical “Jubilee” premieres in NYC
1957 – Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize
1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 7 is launched