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★24 Oct 1851
William Lassell discovered the Uranian moons Umbriel and Ariel.

★04 Jun 1855
Major Henry C. Wayne departed New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.

★10 Apr 1858
Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast after the original bell had cracked during testing.

★02 Jan 1860
French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier announced the putative discovery of the planet Vulcan at a meeting at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.

★08 Oct 1862
American Civil War: The Battle of Perryville, one of the bloodiest battles of the war, was fought in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky.

★14 May 1863
American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.

★06 Nov 1865
Months after the end of the American Civil War, the CSS Shenandoah became the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 38 vessels.

★18 Jan 1866
Wesley College, one of the largest schools in Australia by enrolment, was established in Melbourne.

★09 May 1877
An 8.5 Ms earthquake struck the northern portion of Chile, resulting in the death of 2,541 people, including victims of the ensuing tsunami as far away as Hawaii and Japan.

★13 Jun 1881
An Arctic Ocean ice pack crushed the USS Jeannette during its expedition to the North Pole.

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