Louisiana Senator and former governor Huey Long was shot in the State Capitol in Baton Rouge on the night of September 8, 1935, and died two days later. Dr. Carl Weiss, the son-in-law of a judge Long was trying to remove, was shot dead in the same corridor, with dozens of bullets in his body. The popular account says Weiss was the assassin, but medical letters describe Long being hit in a lip injury, and a stray bullet from bodyguards' guns, a .38 that matched their weapons, was recovered from Long's body, while Weiss's .32 pistol was never a match. Historians still debate which account is true.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.