1861: Civil War: Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution.
1862: Civil War: General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester, Virginia.
1864: Civil War. Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee.
1865: Civil War. General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1910: The obituary of George Wilson Kraus ran in the Herald-Democrat, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas.
1919: British troops occupy Baghdad.
1922: Elizabeth Ann 'Betty' Spencer, wife of Joe Allen Kraus, was born to Buel Kraus in Bentonville, Benton Country, Arkansas.
1953: An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches.
1960: Spacecraft Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus.
1986: Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km.