1844

Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.

1950

The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.

1957

Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm, causing as many as 600 deaths.

1991

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement.

2006

A constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the American flag fell one vote short of the 67 needed.