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Historical Event(s)
– The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
– American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
– A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
– During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
– Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
– The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after its loss at the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
– The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
– American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass – on the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
– American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
Who Were Born On ?
– Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
– Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
– Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (d. 1900)
– Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
– Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1954)
– Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
– Aubrey Smith, English cricketer and actor (d. 1948)
– Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
– Arthur Henderson, British politician and union leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935)
– George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and writer (d. 1952)