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★05 Jun 1862
Vietnamese guerrilla leader Trương Định decided to defy Emperor Tự Đức and the Treaty of Saigon, choosing to fight on against the Europeans.

★27 Jun 1864
American Civil War: Union Army General William T. Sherman's frontal assault against the Army of Tennessee failed, but that did not stop Sherman's advance on Atlanta.

★05 Aug 1864
American Civil War: Rear Admiral David Farragut successfully led the Union fleet through a mine field to victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay.

★06 Jun 1882
The Shewa kingdom made big strides towards gaining supremacy over the Ethiopian Empire by defeating the Gojjam and gaining control of territories south of the Gibe River.

★14 Mar 1885
The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed Savoy opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.

★23 Feb 1886
American inventor Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive method of producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron.

★11 Dec 1886
The London-based football club Arsenal, then known as Dial Square, played their first match on the Isle of Dogs.

★23 May 1895
Representatives of the Astor Library and Lenox Library agreed to merge and form the New York Public Library, now the second-largest public library in the United States.

★31 Mar 1899
Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.

★07 Mar 1900
The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver.

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