1862
Union and Confederate forces clash at the Battle of Williamsburg, part of the Peninsular Campaign.
1862
Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeat troops sent by Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla.
1917
Eugene Jacques Bullard becomes the first African-American aviator when he earns a flying certificate with the French Air Service.
1942
General Joseph Stilwell learns that the Japanese have cut his railway out of China and is forced to lead his troops into India.
1965
173rd Airborne Brigade arrives in Bien Hoa-Vung, Vietnam, the first regular U.S. Army unit deployed to that country.
1969
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Norman Mailer for his 'nonfiction novel' Armies of the Night, an account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.
2000
The Sun, Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn align - Earth's moon is also almost in this alignment - leading to Doomsday predictions of massive natural disasters, although such a 'grand confluence' occurs about once in every century.