Birth of John Bright, British politician and political reformer, co-founder of
the Anti-Corn Law League, and a campaigner for free trade

American Civil War: Battle of Belmont, Missouri. A minor battle with an
inconclusive outcome, but notable as it was Ulysses S. Grant’s first
experience of battlefield command. (He would later become commander
of the Union Army, and U.S. President)

The first aerial bombing raid. In the Italo-Turkish War, Italian pilot Giulio
Gavotti dropped 4 small bombs on Turkish troops in Libya

William Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’ was first performed, at Whitehall Palace, London, UK