Person report

★05 Aug 1864
American Civil War: Rear Admiral David Farragut successfully led the Union fleet through a mine field to victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay.

★15 Jan 1867
In Regent's Park, London, the ice on the lake broke, plunging skaters into the water and causing 40 deaths from drowning or hypothermia.

★22 Feb 1876
Swedish woman Karolina Olsson went to sleep and purportedly fell into a state of hibernation for the next 32 years.

★07 Oct 1878
The state funeral of Mindon Min, who ruled Burma for 25 years, was held.

★08 Jan 1889
Statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine, the precursor to modern computers.

★08 Jan 1904
Blackstone Library, the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.

★17 Feb 1904
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala in Milan, generating negative reviews that forced him to rewrite the opera.

★17 Feb 1913
In the U.S. National Guard's 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, the Armory Show opened, introducing Americans to avant-garde and modern art.

★06 Mar 1913
First Balkan War: The Greek army captured Bizani Fortress, near Ioannina, from the Ottomans.

★11 Jul 1914
USS Nevada, the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought", was launched.

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