| 1927: Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris completing the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic. |
| 1940: British forces attack German General Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing his blitzkrieg of France. |
| 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. |