| 1941: The first U.S. ship, the S.S. Robin Moor, is sunk by a U-boat. |
| 1951: The U.S. Eighth Army counterattacks to drive the Communist Chinese and North Koreans out of South Korea. |
| 1961: Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama. |
| 1970: The U.S. National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University. |
| 1991: In Madras, India, a suicide bomber kills the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. |