Metallica released their single “Enter Sandman.”
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Following the fall of the Umayyads, the city of Baghdad, Iraq, was founded by caliph Al-Mansur the Islamic Ruler.
Abraham Lincoln issued an order called 'eye-for-eye,' allowing Union soldiers to one rebel prisoner for every black prisoner the Confederacy shot.
Former US Army Private Chelsea Manning was convicted on 17 espionage charges.
The USS Indianapolis vessel was torpedoed and sunk.
Host nation Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2 in Montevideo to win the first FIFA World Cup.