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★24 Feb 1822
The first Swaminarayan temple, Swaminarayan Mandir in present-day Ahmedabad, India, was inaugurated.

★30 Mar 1842
American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure.

★17 Sep 1862
American Civil War: Almost 23,000 total casualties were suffered at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where Confederate and Union troops fought to a tactical stalemate.

★02 May 1863
American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading to his death by pneumonia eight days later.

★09 Apr 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866, the United States' first federal law to affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law, was enacted.

★21 Oct 1867
The first of the Medicine Lodge Treaties was signed between the United States and several Native American tribes in the Great Plains, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma.

★22 Mar 1871
William Woods Holden, Governor of North Carolina, became the first U.S. state governor to be removed from office through impeachment.

★04 Dec 1872
The American brigantine Mary Celeste was found apparently abandoned under circumstances that to this day remain unknown.

★02 May 1878
A dust explosion at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 18 deaths.

★02 Sep 1885
White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, U.S., attacked Chinese immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately $150,000 in property damage.

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