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Historical Event(s)
– Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the Civil War.
– American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
– Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
– Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
– American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
– Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
– Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
– American Civil War: Battle of Franklin – The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee, with Hood losing six generals and almost a third of his troops.
– In the Battle of Nashville, Union forces under George H. Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John B. Hood.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911)
– Thomas Dixon, American playwright and legislator (d. 1946)
– Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English inventor (d. 1927)
– Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
– Joseph Baptista, Indian Home Rule Movement founder (d. 1930)
– Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (d. 1913)
– George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943)
– Ragna Wettergreen, Norwegian actress (d. 1958)
– Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic Priest (d. 1938)
– Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (d. 1951)