Today in History for January 1865

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 18 of 18

1st - -Apr 26th] Carolinas' campaign
3rd - Con Orem & Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
4th - The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.
11th - Battle of Beverly, WV
12th - -13] Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC
13th - -Jan 15th] BBT & CPT Ft Fisher, NC
15th - Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
16th - Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Ft Fisher NC, 40 die
16th - Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
16th - SF Dramatic Chronicle started
18th - Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC
19th - NV Suriname Bank established
19th - Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC
23rd - -Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach)
25th - CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
28th - Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners
31st - Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
31st - Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 14 of 14

1st - Giuseppe Ferrata, composer
3rd - Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)
5th - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
10th - Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
13th - Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)
17th - Gen Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)
20th - Friedrich A H von Waldeck, brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck
22nd - Friedrich Paschen, German physicist
23rd - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor (Black Haired Whore)
28th - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
28th - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
30th - Samuel Pl'h Naber, Dutch rear-admiral/librarian
31st - Henri Desgrange, Founder of the Tour-de-France (d. 1940)
31st - Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

16th - Confederate soldier during US Civil War Brigadier General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 4 of 4

3rd - Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43
8th - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
16th - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
19th - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)

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