1960

Rioting erupted in Biloxi, Mississippi, after Black protesters staging a “wade-in” at a whites-only beach were attacked by a crowd of hostile white people.

1967

Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft smashed into the Earth after his parachutes failed to deploy properly during re-entry; he was the first human spaceflight fatality.

1995

The final bomb linked to Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, exploded inside the Sacramento offices of a lobbying group for the wood products industry, killing chief lobbyist Gilbert B. Murray.