England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria

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Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901

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Samuel Morse patents his telegraph

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Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60

Death

Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67

Death

Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, minister of interior (1866..88) [or Jul 20]

Birth

Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin

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Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)

Birth

Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer

Birth

Skirmish at Greencastle Pennsylvania

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West Virginia admitted as 35th US state

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1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)

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Friend Smith Rutherford, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43?

Death

Battle of Petersburgs VA - in trenches

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Worm Pander, sculptor

Birth

Battle of Kinston NC and Battle of Abingdon VA

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Skirmish at Lattermore's Mills/Powder Springs Georgia

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Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], Dutch lawyer/detective writer

Birth

Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, England, egyptologist (Tutanchamon)

Birth

Italy declares war on Austria

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Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska

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Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame

Birth

Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39

Death

Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss

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1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)

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