1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1899 – Englishman A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest recorded score in cricket.
1905 – During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors initiate a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
1941 – Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of some 13,260 Jews.
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