1861 – CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
1934 – “Night of Long Knives” – Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party
1937 – The world’s first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999
1950 – US General MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops
1962 – LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
1970 – Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2
1978 – Giants’ Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs
1981 – Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained
2009 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor
2009 – Turkey records its fastest contraction of 13.8% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to 2008, leading the country into recession; this is Turkey’s biggest economic slump since 1945