- 1895 - Oscar Wilde was jailed for homosexuality.
- 1901 - The Argentine Regional Workers' Federation was founded at a congress in Buenos Aires.
- 1926 - Jewish anarchist Sholom Schwartzbard assassinated Symon Petliura who he blamed for the deaths of 15 members of his family in Pogroms in Ukraine.
- 1978 - The Unabomber's first bomb injures one at the University of Illinois.
