Soviet military troops suppressed mass demonstrations in Tbilisi, Georgia, against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1945
World War II: A bomb raid on Tokyo by American B-29 heavy bombers started a firestorm, killing over 100,000 people.
1862
American Civil War: In the world's first major battle between two powered ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
1842
Nabucco, an opera by Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi , premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
1841
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who seized control of La Amistad, the trans-Atlantic slave-trading ship carrying them, had been taken into slavery illegally.
1276
Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire became a Free Imperial City.
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