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★01 Jun 1831
British naval officer and explorer James Clark Ross successfully led the first expedition to reach the North Magnetic Pole.

★29 Jan 1845
American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" appeared in The Evening Mirror, its first publication attributed to Poe.

★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.

★30 Sep 1863
Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.

★29 Oct 1863
American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

★28 Jul 1866
At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln currently in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.

★16 Mar 1872
In the first-ever final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest association football competition, Wanderers F.C. defeated Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

★09 Jul 1896
Politician William Jennings Bryan made his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism, considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history.

★16 Jan 1905
Despite being blind in one eye, ice hockey player Frank McGee set the record for most goals in a Stanley Cup game when he scored 14 against the Dawson City Nuggets.

★05 Feb 1913
Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.

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