Million Man March
- 1590 – Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo caught his wife having an extramarital affair with Duke Fabrizio Carafa of Andria and killed them both on the spot.
- 1793 – War of the First Coalition: Despite leading French forces to victory in the Battle of Wattignies, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan was later forcibly discharged from the army due to interference from Lazare Carnot.
- 1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded in Quebec City, Canada, to lead international efforts to defeat hunger.
- 1975 – Five journalists for Australian television networks based in the town of Balibo were killed by Indonesian special force soldiers prior to their invasion of East Timor.
- 1995 – Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam convened the Million Man March (pictured) in Washington, D.C., in an effort to unite in self-help and self-defense against economic and social ills plaguing the African American community.
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