1793

The Louvre began admitting the public.

1864

President Abraham Lincoln won reelection as he defeated Democratic challenger George B. McClellan.

1923

Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the “Beer-Hall Putsch.”

1950

During the Korean War, the first jet-plane battle took place as U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15.

2016

Republican Donald Trump was elected U.S. president.