1846: Protesting US involvement in the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau refuses to pay his $1 poll tax and spends the night in jail; he later writes Civil Disobedience
1888: Raymond Chandler is born [technique]
1923: Pancho Villa dies, ambushed in Parral, Mexico
2004: The FBI goes looking for Nate Hoffmann of the Crossroads Infoshop