Person report

★02 Sep 1864
American Civil War: Union forces entered Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city, bringing the Atlanta Campaign to a close.

★24 Feb 1875
The steamship SS Gothenburg hit a section of the Great Barrier Reef at low tide and sank northwest of Holbourne Island, Queensland, Australia, with over 98 deaths.

★31 Aug 1876
Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire was deposed after a reign of 93 days on grounds of mental illness.

★16 Dec 1893
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

★02 Aug 1916
An explosion sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci, which was blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs.

★09 Dec 1917
First World War: Hussein al-Husayni, the Ottoman mayor of Jerusalem, surrendered the city to the British.

★25 Dec 1927
The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, a revolutionary socialist political party that sought Vietnamese independence from French colonial rule, was formed in Hanoi.

★25 Feb 1933
USS Ranger, the first ship of the United States Navy designed as an aircraft carrier, was launched.

★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.

★08 Jan 1936
Reza Shah issued the Kashf-e hijab decree, ordering Iranian police to remove hijabs from any women in public.

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