Each Day in History

1862

21-Apr

Congress established the U.S. Mint in Denver, marking it as the primary facility for producing coinage in the Western United States.

22-Dec

Connie Mack (Baseball player)

19-Nov

Billy Sunday (American evangelist in the early 1900s)

11-Sep

O Henry (William Sidney Porter) (Short Story Writer)

22-Aug

Achille-Claude Debussy (Composer)

5-Aug

Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man)

24-Jan

Edith Wharton (American Novelist)

31-Dec

President Abraham Lincoln signed an act admitting West Virginia to the Union.

17-Dec

General Order Number 11 was issued by Major-General Ulysses S. Grant ordering the expulsion of all Jews in his military district.

13-Dec

Union forces led by Major General Ambrose Burnside launched futile attacks against entrenched Confederate soldiers during the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg; the soundly beaten

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