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Historical Event(s)
– Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
– Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
– El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
– American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
– American Civil War: Maryland’s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
– American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
– American Civil War: at the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25 mile march into Virginia for what will become The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
– American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
– American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.
– Forces led by Nguyen Trung Truc, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
Who Were Born On ?
– Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1949)
– Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, widow of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1939)
– Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (d. 1929)
– Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
– Omar Bundy, American Army general (d. 1940)
– Edith Roosevelt, American First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
– Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
– Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
– Georges Méliès, French filmmaker (d. 1938)
– Charles Duryea, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)