Today in History for February 1864

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 25 of 25

1st - -Feb 8th] Battle of Yazoo River, MS
1st - 2nd German-Danish war begins
1st - Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
2nd - -Oct 7th) Cruise of CSS Florida
3rd - Sherman's march through Mississippi
4th - Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
5th - Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
6th - -7] Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia
7th - Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida
13th - Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi
15th - Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans
16th - Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army
17th - Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic"
19th - Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members)
20th - Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
21st - -22] Battle at Okolona, Mississippi
21st - 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
22nd - -27] Battle at Dalton Georgia
22nd - 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, MS
22nd - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee
24th - -Feb 25] Battle of Tunnel Hill, GA (Buzzard's Roost)
27th - 6th & last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
27th - Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
28th - -Mar 3rd] Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
28th - -Mar 4th) Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 10 of 10

5th - Carl Teike, composer
6th - John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author/poet (Anarchists)
7th - Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet)
7th - Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer
14th - Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto)
14th - Robert E Park, US, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man)
17th - Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet (Waltzing Matilda)
17th - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
19th - Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911)
22nd - Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 6 of 6

15th - Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies
15th - William Dyce, painter, dies
16th - Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer, dies at 58
19th - William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies
21st - Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
26th - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)