The Blackstone Hotel
- 1345 – Inspecting a new prison without being escorted by his bodyguard, Alexios Apokaukos, megas doux of the Byzantine Navy, was lynched by the prisoners.
- 1837 – Tensions between Yankees and Irish Americans in Boston, Massachusetts, erupted in the Broad Street riot.
- 1920 – During their national convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in The Blackstone Hotel (pictured) to decide their presidential candidate, leading to the phrase "smoke-filled room".
- 1963 – Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
- 2007 – Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall killed 130 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Barnabe Googe (b. 1540) · Klemens von Metternich (d. 1859) · Sandra Schmirler (b. 1963)
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