Bill Mauldin 1921
- 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I.
- 1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.
- 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted.
- 1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.
- 1956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered on NBC. The show replaced "The Camel News Caravan."
- 1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school segregation.
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