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★06 Jul 1801
French Revolutionary Wars: A Royal Navy squadron attempted to eliminate a smaller French Navy squadron at Algeciras before they could join their Spanish allies.

★18 Jun 1815
War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo in present-day Belgium.

★27 Nov 1815
As specified by the Congress of Vienna, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland was signed for the newly recreated Polish state that was under Russian control.

★16 Nov 1855
Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia–Zimbabwe border.

★30 Jun 1859
French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Gorge on a tightrope, making him one of the world's most famous tightrope walkers.

★06 Jun 1862
American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the First Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.

★04 Jul 1862
In a boat on the River Thames from Oxford to Godstow, author Lewis Carroll told Alice Liddell and her sisters a story that later formed the basis for his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

★06 Apr 1868
The Charter Oath, which stated the main aims and methods of action of the new Meiji era of Japan, was promulgated in Kyoto.

★05 Oct 1869
During construction of the Hennepin Island tunnel in St. Anthony, Minnesota, U.S., the Mississippi River broke through the tunnel's limestone ceiling, nearly destroying Saint Anthony Falls.

★24 Oct 1871
The largest mass lynching in United States history took place when around 500 white rioters entered Chinatown in Los Angeles to attack, rob, and murder its residents.

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