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An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.
In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people.
Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
French Revolutionary Wars: A naval engagement between French and British fleets off the coast of Sumatra ended inconclusively.
Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.
Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, P�
In a fight near Christiana, Pennsylvania, a group of escaped slaves and free Blacks led by William Parker fought off a federal posse seeking to arrest and return the escapees to slavery.
Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.
The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
The body of actress Peg Entwistle is discovered by police, two days after her suicide by jumping off of the Hollywoodland sign.
Panic of 1873: The American bank Jay Cooke & Company declared bankruptcy, setting off a chain reaction of bank failures.
An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven soldiers and policemen.
Florida Commuter Airlines Flight 65 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off West End, Bahamas, killing 34 people.
Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.
The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off to join the American invasion.
The overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MV Le Joola, capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
The German government calls off the passive resistance to the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr.