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Historical Event(s)
– American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
– American Civil War: The Battle at Lee’s Mills in Virginia.
– American Civil War: The Union Army completes the Capture of New Orleans.
– Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
– President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
– American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
– American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
– In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
– American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
– American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Who Were Born On ?
– Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland (d. 1939)
– Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
– Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
– Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1951)
– Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
– Léon Boëllmann, French composer (d. 1897)
– Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
– Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944)
– Joseph Bruce Ismay, British ocean liner executive and Titanic survivor (d. 1937)
– Connie Mack, American baseball executive (d. 1956)