1861 – Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as provisional president of the Confederate States of American in Montgomery, Ala.
1878 – Outlaw Jesse Evans murders John Tunstall in Lincoln County, N.M., starting the Lincoln County Wars.
1885 – Mark Twain publishes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
