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Historical Event(s)
– The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York, New York.
– American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
– American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
– American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
– American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler’s Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
– In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
– Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
– American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
– Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
– Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
Who Were Born On ?
– Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951)
– Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (d. 1940)
– Jack Miner, Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
– Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
– George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
– Frederick Albert Cook, American explorer and physician, claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1908 (d. 1940)
– King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
– Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
– Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
– Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (d. 1950)