1680
Pueblo Indians drove out the Spanish and took possession of Santa Fe, N.M.
1831
Nat Turner led an insurrection of slaves in Virginia.
1991
Latvia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1998
Samuel Bowers, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted in Hattiesburg, MS, of ordering a firebombing that killed civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in 1966.
