1862 – Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
1968 – Riots continue in over 100 US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1969 – Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4
1971 – WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals
1973 – Doug Walters’ best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown
1973 – Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420
1974 – Herb Gardner’s “Thieves” premieres in NYC
1985 – Nabisco Dinah Shore Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Alice Miller shoots a final round 67 (−5) to win her only major title, 3 strokes ahead of Jan Stephenson of Australia
1987 – Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on “Nightline”
1992 – Republika Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence.