1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England
1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1825 Birth - Thomas Henry Huxley scientist/humanist/Darwinist
1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1865 Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois, three weeks after his assassination.
1923 Bloody street battles between Nazis, socialist & police in Vienna
1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law
1932 Mobster Al Capone enters the Atlanta federal penitentary to begin serving a term for income tax evasion
1970 Vietnam War: Kent State shootings The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after the ROTC building was burnt down, opens fire killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.
1981 Death - Bobby Sands Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike
1989 Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and was acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
1998 A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
