1864 Skirmish at Ny River VA

1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Irwinsville GA

1865 Surrender of Sam Jones

1865 Union forces capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville, GA, in one of the last acts of the American Civil War

1869 Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Point UT-Transcontinental RR

1870 Jem Mace defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champion Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hour & 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch

1871 Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany; France cedes Elzas

1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes first woman nominated for US president

1876 Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia

1879 Meteor falls near Estherville IA

1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

1881 Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation

1888 First colonial athletics championships are held at the NSW Amateur Athletics Association Cricket Ground in Sydney.

1893 Imperial Institute in London opens

1906 Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for first time

1908 The first Mother's Day observed (Philadelphia)

1910 Halley's Comet closest approach to Earth in 1910

1910 The first aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)

1913 39th Kentucky Derby Roscoe Goose aboard Donerail wins in 2 04.8

1915 Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea

1916 Disastrous fire in Ellendale ND

1916 Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam

1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks

1918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor

1919 Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed

1921 Luigi Pirandello's "Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore" premieres

1922 Dr Ivy Williams is first woman to be called to the English Bar

1924 J Edgar Hoover appointed head of the FBI

1925 William Ferguson Massey, New Zealand statesman and prime minister (1912-25), dies in office.

1930 Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 vs Yorkshire at Sheffield

1930 First US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)

1931 Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington NJ

1932 Government declares "Wilhelmus" Netherlands national anthem

1932 Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes President of France

1933 Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms

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