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★17 Dec 1862
American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

★03 Jul 1863
Pickett's Charge, a futile Confederate infantry assault against Union Army positions, occurred during the final and bloodiest day of fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg, marking a turning point in the American Civil War.

★20 Feb 1872
New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, today the largest art museum in the United States with a collection of over two million works of art, opened.

★21 Nov 1894
First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the city of Port Arthur, the Japanese Second Army began a massacre of the residents of the city—soldiers and civilians.

★11 Dec 1899
Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein, Boers defeated the forces of the British Empire trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.

★14 Apr 1909
Following a military revolt against the constitutional government, a mob began a massacre of Armenians in Adana Vilayet, Ottoman Empire.

★15 Nov 1922
During a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people.

★06 Sep 1930
Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a military coup by José Félix Uriburu.

★06 Oct 1934
Catalonia's autonomous government declared a general strike, an armed insurgency, and the establishment of the Catalan State in reaction to the inclusion of conservatives in the republican regime of Spain.

★26 Mar 1939
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.

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