1864 – 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
1917 – Ernest Bloch’s “Schelomo” premieres in Carnegie Hall, NYC
1917 – 1st performance of Ernest Bloch’s symphony “Israel”
1936 – NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1937 – Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for “Gone With The Wind”
1945 – 1st Polish Armoured Division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West occupies Wilhelmshafen in Germany
1966 – WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
2002 – A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2006 – Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors
2021 – US Environmental Protection Agency takes first significant step against climate change by announcing new limits on hydrofluorocarbons (-85% over 15 years)