1825 -- Thomas Henry Huxley born ("Darwin's Bulldog")
1932 -- Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion
1970 -- Four Kent State University students were shot by National Guard
1989 -- Oliver North is convicted in Iran-Contra scandal
1994 -- Yitzhak Rabin & Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho