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Historical Event(s)
– American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
– Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
– American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
– American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
– American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
– U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
– Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX’s yacht, the L’Immaculata Concezion.
– The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
– American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
– American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
Who Were Born On ?
– Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac, an American patron of French music, and of the arts, sciences, and letters (d. 1943)
– Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
– Erich Ludendorff, German general in World War I (d. 1937)
– Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
– Clyde Fitch, American playwright (d. 1909)
– Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
– Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
– Philipp Scheidemann, First Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (d. 1939)
– Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
– Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (d. 1932)