1798
British seamen board the U.S. frigate Baltimore and impress a number of crewmen as alleged deserters, a practice that contributed to the War of 1812.
1813
The British announce a blockade of Long Island Sound, leaving only the New England coast open to shipping.
1821
Trader William Becknell reaches Santa Fe, N.M., on the route that will become known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1902
A cartoon appears in the Washington Star, prompting the Teddy Bear Craze, after President Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill a captive bear tied up for him to shoot during a hunting trip to Mississippi.
1907
The Indian and Oklahoma territories are unified to make Oklahoma, which becomes the 46th state.
1913
Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's 7-part novel Remembrance of Things Past, is published.
1960
After the integration of two all-white schools, 2,000 whites riot in the streets of New Orleans.
1965
In the last day of the fighting at Landing Zone X-Ray, regiments of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division repulse NVA forces in the Ia Drang Valley.
1989
Salvadoran Army death squad kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1992
Eric Lawes, while using a metal detector to search for a friend's lost hammer near Hoxne, Suffolk, England, discovers the Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold ever found in Britain, and the largest collection of 4th and 5th century coins found anywhere within the bounds of the former Roman Empire