Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene)

Birth

Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe P‚lissier in Paris

Event

Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies

Death

Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan

Event

Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas)

Birth

Lord Hawke, cricketer (England batsman 1890's, many official posts)

Birth

Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy

Event

Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri

Event

Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy)

Birth

Emancipation Proclamation signed

Event

Chickamauga campaign GA

Event

Henry Constant Gabriel Piern‚, Metz France, composer (Edith)

Birth

Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx)

Birth

John Randolph Chambliss Jr, planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31

Death

Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam

Event

Battle of Front Royal VA (Guard Hill)

Event

4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault

Event

Ant¢nio Nobre, Portuguese poet (Lonely)

Birth

Bernard MacFadden, publisher (Physical Culture, True Romances)

Birth

Charles Sanford Skilton, composer

Birth

Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80

Death

Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion

Event

Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer

Birth

Arthur Meighen, Canada, PM of Canada (1920, 21, 26)

Birth

Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth

Event