Metallica released their single “Enter Sandman.”
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Abraham Lincoln issued an order called 'eye-for-eye,' allowing Union soldiers to one rebel prisoner for every black prisoner the Confederacy shot.
Vanuatu gained its independence from the Anglo-French Condominium.
Following the fall of the Umayyads, the city of Baghdad, Iraq, was founded by caliph Al-Mansur the Islamic Ruler.
President Eisenhower demanded that all US currency would feature the words 'In God We Trust.'
17-year-old Neville Ebbin was riding his electric cycle down a stretch of road in Bermuda when he was hit and killed by a taxi driver named Willard Manders.