In the Battle of Cane Hill, General John Marmaduke’s Confederates are defeated by Union troops under General James G. Blunt.

The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter

Attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba take place in Mumbai

The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios allegedly as communists.

A hijacker parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money.

The so called, Manchester Martyrs are hanged in England for killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape from custody.

Two Chicago television stations are hacked by an pirate dressed up as Max Headroom.

An Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war that were thought to…

Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials take place in Czechoslovakia.

The music group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because they used session musicians to do the vocals!