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Events
- 1692 – Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
- 1848 – Women's rights: The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid – At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
- 1879 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
- 1912 – A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
- 1942 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
- 1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
- 1967 – A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid–air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82.
- 1979 – The Sandinista rebels overthrow the U.S.–backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
- 1983 – The first three–dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
- 1989 – United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.