1884 – Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months
1933 – American banks allowed to reopen after a government imposed bank holiday
1961 – JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1970 – San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
1972 – 7th Academy of Country Music Awards: Freddie Hart and Loretta Lynn win
1986 – Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1990 – Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1995 – Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
2013 – 10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan
2020 – African American Breonna Taylor shot and killed by police officers executing a no-knock warrant on her flat with a battering ram in Louisville, Kentucky