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Saturday, 04 July 2026
Apr 26 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #83 Beatrix 
Apr 26 Battle of Durham Station, NC (Greensboro).
Apr 26 Charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74
Apr 26 Gen Joseph E Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee, at Durham, NC
Apr 26 John Wilkes Booth assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green, VA
Apr 27 1450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up
Apr 27 Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.
Apr 27 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
Apr 27 Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)
Apr 27 Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, results in the deaths of up to 2000.
Apr 28 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine," premieres in Paris.
Apr 30 -5/1] Gen Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia
May 02 Pres Johnson offers $100000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis.
May 02 President Johnson offers $100000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
May 04 Battle of Citronville AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
May 04 Battle of Mobile AL
May 05 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
May 05 Felicjan Szopski, composer.
May 09 August de Boeck, composer
May 10 Jefferson Davis captured at Irwinsville Georgia.
May 10 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Irwinsville GA.
May 10 Surrender of Sam Jones.
May 10 Union forces capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville, GA, in one of the last acts of the American Civil War
May 11 Jeff Thompson surrenders.
May 12 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
May 13 S Brownsville, TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
May 13 South Brownsville TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
May 15 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion).
May 17 The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established
May 18 William Heinemann, England, publisher (Chemical Instrumental).
May 19 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia.
May 21 C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
May 22 Enrique Morera, composer.
May 23 -24] Victory parade in Washington, DC (Grand Review)
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