1783: Washington Irving is born; goes on to write The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, among other things
1860: The first successful Pony Express run begins, from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California
1948: The Cheju massacre begins; the island’s population is literally decimated—in peacetime, during the American occupation [embedded audio: “USFK Bastards Out Now!”]
1949: Richard Thompson is born in London, not on the Banks of the Nile
1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his final speech
1996: The Unabomber is arrested by the FBI