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★06 Feb 1840
The British and the Māori signed the Treaty of Waitangi, considered as the founding document of New Zealand.

★11 Oct 1840
Bashir Shihab II surrendered to the Ottoman Empire and was removed as Emir of Mount Lebanon after an imperial decree by Sultan Abdülmecid I.

★19 Sep 1846
Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, reported experiencing a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.

★10 Aug 1861
American Civil War: The first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, was fought.

★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.

★31 Dec 1862
American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, began in an engagement where both sides would suffer their highest casualty rates of the war.

★22 Feb 1876
Swedish woman Karolina Olsson went to sleep and purportedly fell into a state of hibernation for the next 32 years.

★31 Mar 1889
The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated in Paris, becoming a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.

★22 Oct 1895
At Gare Montparnasse station in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing the concourse before crashing through a wall and falling to the plaza below.

★20 Nov 1902
While discussing how to promote the newspaper L'Auto, sports journalist Géo Lefèvre came up with the idea of holding a cycling race that later became known as the Tour de France.

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