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★05 Nov 1828
Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea ended when the last Ottoman forces departed the peninsula.

★15 Sep 1831
The John Bull, the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.

★26 Jan 1841
Commodore Gordon Bremer took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for Great Britain at Possession Point.

★03 Apr 1860
The Pony Express, a mail service that became the most direct means of long distance communication to the American West, began operation.

★24 Nov 1863
American Civil War: As part of the Chattanooga Campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces captured Lookout Mountain, helping them to begin breaking the Confederate siege of the city.

★05 May 1864
American Civil War: Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia began with the Battle of the Wilderness in Spotsylvania County.

★23 Jun 1865
Stand Watie became the last Confederate general to surrender in the American Civil War.

★16 Oct 1869
Girton College, one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge and England's first residential college for women, was founded.

★02 Jul 1881
U.S. President James A. Garfield was fatally shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C.

★24 Mar 1882
German physician Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

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