1861

6-Nov

James Naismith (Inventor of Basketball)

30-Sep

William Wrigley (Chewing Gum Tycoon)

6-Aug

Edith Roosevelt (First Lady, wife of Teddy Roosevelt)

17-Jun

Pete Brownng (Baseball player)

6-Nov

Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.

24-Oct

The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent as Justice Stephan J. Field of California transmitted a telegram to President Abraham Lincoln.

14-Sep

The first naval engagement of the Civil War took place as the USS Colorado attacked and sank the confederate private schooner Judah off Pensacola, Florida.

5-Aug

The U.S. federal government levied an income tax for the first time.

27-Jul

Union General George B. McClellan was placed in command of the Army of the Potomac.

21-Jul

Confederate forces were victorious at Bull Run in the first major battle of the Civil War.

6-Nov

30-Sep

6-Aug

17-Jun

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Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

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