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Historical Event(s)
– With the Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
– The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
– An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
– American Civil War: Battle of Wilson’s Creek – the war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
– American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
– American Civil War: Battle of Ball’s Bluff – Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
– American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
– American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
– American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
– Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
Who Were Born On ?
– Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
– Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
– Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1938)
– John Peltz, American baseball player (d. 1906)
– Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
– Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
– Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
– Frederic Remington, American painter (d. 1909)
– Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (d. 1917)