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Historical Event(s)
– Alabama secedes from the United States.
– American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
– American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
– Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
– El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
– Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
– American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
– American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
– American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel. Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
– The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born author (d. 1937)
– Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist (d. 1897)
– Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (d. 1936)
– Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
– Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
– Anton Arensky, Russian composer, pianist and professor of music (d. 1906)
– Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Theologian and Baptist Minister (d. 1918)
– Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
– Georges Méliès, French filmmaker (d. 1938)
– Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish politician (d. 1944)