The first rules of Australian rules football are written by members of the Melbourne Football Club.

Aristides wins the very first Kentucky Derby.

An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fired missiles at the USS Stark. 37 were killed.

A fire nearly burns the entire city of St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.

33 people are killed when the Ulster Volunteer Force explodes car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland.