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Historical Event(s)
– Montana is organized as a United States territory.
– Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
– New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
– American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
– American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
– American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin’s Farm is fought.
– American Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom’s Brook, Virginia.
– Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
– American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman’s March to the Sea.
– American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill – A Confederate advance into Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Union Army. General John Bell Hood is angered, which leads to the Battle of Franklin.
Who Were Born On ?
– Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English inventor (d. 1927)
– John Henry Mackay, Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker and writer (d. 1933)
– Jules Renard, French author (d. 1910)
– David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
– Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935)
– Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)
– Elinor Glyn, British writer (d. 1943)
– James F. Hinkle, American politician (d. 1951)
– James Allen English writer (d. 1912)
– Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)