In Virginia, Nat Turner and 7 fellow slaves murder their master and his family. Over the next 2 days, they enlist about 75 more slaves and kill about 60 whites.
State militia crushes their rebellion.
Nat Turner escapes, but is hunted down and executed. Many innocent slaves are murdered or beaten by angry whites. Fear of a more successful slave uprising will haunt the South until the end of slavery. William Quantrill's Confederate guerrilla band attacks Lawrence, KS, and murders some 150 civilians. U.S., UK, Soviet, and Chinese representatives meet at Dumbarton Oaks, an estate near Washington, DC, to plan the postwar formation of the United Nations.