1576 – Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
1908 – Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1943 – “The Four Chaplains” drown after giving up their life jackets to others as the US Army transport ship Dorchester sinks in the North Atlantic
1962 – US President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs
1992 – Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
1997 – Public memorial held for Carl Sagan at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1998 – Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas, first woman executed in the United States since 1984
2013 – 33 people are killed by a suicide bombing by an explosive-packed truck in Kirkuk, Iraq