1892

The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.

1958

Racially desegregated Clinton High School in Tennessee, was nearly leveled by an early morning bombing.

1986

Nicaraguan Sandinista government soldiers shot down a cargo plane carrying weapons and ammunition bound for Contra rebels; the event exposed a web of illegal arms shipments, leading to the Iran-Contra Scandal.

1989

A jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, convicted evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers.