| 1455: King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses. |
| 1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri. |
| 1856: Senator Preston Brooks of South Carolina strikes Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery. |
| 1863: Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins. |
| 1868: The Great Train Robbery takes place as seven members of the Reno Gang make off with $98,000 in cash from a train's safe in Indiana. |
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