1775

The Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a costly victory for the British, who suffered heavy losses.

1930

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which boosted U.S. tariffs historically high, prompting foreign retaliation.

1972

President Richard Nixon’s eventual downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside the Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C.’s, Watergate complex.

1994

After leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. (Simpson was acquitted of the murders in a 1995 trial, but held liable in a civil trial in 1997.)