1865 – General William T. Sherman’s Union forces occupied Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1915 – The British declares a blockade of all German ports after Germany declared a “war zone” around the British Isles during World War I.
1927 – First armored commercial car hold-up in the United States in Pittsburgh.
1941 – Bronko Nagurski regains the World Wrestling title from Ray Steele in Minnesota after losing to him a year earlier.
1941 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Bill, allowing the United States to provide material support to Great Britain’s war effort in return for future use of land for US military bases in England.
1953 – F.M. Adams is the first woman army doctor commissioned.
1958 – American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 feet on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. It creates crater 75 feet across. The bomb did not have a nuclear capsule.
1958 – Starting this season, American League batters are required to wear batting helmets.
1963 – Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the United States military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner.
1968 – Otis Redding is the first person to posthumously receive a gold record for his single “(Sittin’On) The Dock of the Bay.”
1977 – Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, D.C.
1978 – Bill Cartwright scores 22 points to lead San Francisco to a 68-64 win over North Carolina in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
1982 – United States boycotts Libyan crude oil.
1986 – NFL adopts a limited instant replay rule for reviewing disputed calls.
1991 – Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf’s streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1 in women’s tennis.
1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2012 – American soldier Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan in what is known as the Kandahar massacre.
2018 – Superhero movie “The Black Panther” becomes the fifth Marvel movie to earn $1 billion worldwide.
2020 – 11-year bull market ends as the Dow Jones industrial average falls more than 20%, becoming a bear market.
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