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★03 May 1845
A long-running feud between two towns in Wisconsin came to a head when a schooner crashed into a bridge; they later merged to form the city of Milwaukee.

★25 Apr 1846
An open conflict between the military forces of the United States and Mexico began over the disputed border of Texas north of the Rio Grande and south of the Nueces River, later serving as a primary justification for the Mexican–American War.

★21 Aug 1858
The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, candidates for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate, was held in Ottawa.

★23 Mar 1862
American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson suffered one of his rare defeats during the war in the First Battle of Kernstown, but he was still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula Campaign.

★15 Jan 1885
American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.

★02 Sep 1885
White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, U.S., attacked Chinese immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately $150,000 in property damage.

★29 Jun 1889
Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city in area in the United States and second largest in population.

★29 Dec 1890
The United States Army killed over 150 members of the Great Sioux Nation at the Wounded Knee Massacre.

★04 Dec 1909
The first Grey Cup, the championship game of the Canadian Football League, was held.

★04 Nov 1912
Construction on USS Nevada, the first "super-dreadnought" of the United States Navy, began as the keel was laid down.

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