Person report

★06 Jun 1862
American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the First Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.

★14 Apr 1865
Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally shot U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

★24 Feb 1868
Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. President to be impeached.

★13 Aug 1868
A major earthquake near Arica, Peru, caused an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami caused considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.

★07 Jun 1900
American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks.

★07 Jan 1904
The Marconi International Marine Communication Company mandated that CQD be the distress signal use by its operators, although this was replaced by SOS a few years later.

★26 Jan 1905
The Cullinan Diamond, the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found at 3,107 carats, was discovered at the Premier Mine in Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa.

★23 Oct 1906
Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his biplane 14-bis.

★07 Aug 1914
World War I: France launched its first attack of the war in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to reconquer the province of Alsace from Germany.

★23 Jan 1915
The Chilembwe uprising, regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi, began as rebels, led by a minister, attacked local plantation owners.

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