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Historical Event(s)
– American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
– The London Underground, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
– HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
– American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
– American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
– United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
– New York Draft Riots: in New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
– American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
– President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
– American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
Who Were Born On ?
– Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
– Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
– Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)
– Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer (d. 1938)
– Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1954)
– Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
– Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
– Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
– Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)
– Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (d. 1952)