1904

Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian Navy at Port Arthur (now Dalian, China), marking the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War.

1910

The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated by William D. Boyce.

1915

D.W. Griffith’s controversial epic film “The Birth of a Nation” premiered in Los Angeles.

1968

Three Black students were killed and 28 wounded as state troopers opened fire on student demonstrators on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg in the wake of protests over a whites-only bowling alley.