1749 – First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1945 - Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1974 – Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
