The drug company Bayer registers “Aspirin” as a trademark.

The Michelangelo computer virus starts affecting computers worldwide.

The first of the East Los Angeles walkouts occur at several high schools.

Nabisco first introduces the Oreo cookie.

After a two week siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including Davy Crockett, defending the Alamo are killed and…