Daily Facts about Democratic

1983

U.S. troops invade the Caribbean nation of Grenada in Operation Urgent Fury.

1979

John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, and John D. Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison for their roles in the Watergate scandal.

1964

Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1960

U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon hold their third and final presidential debate.

1861

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.