Person report

★26 Jan 1841
Commodore Gordon Bremer took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for Great Britain at Possession Point.

★19 Jun 1846
The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules developed by Alexander Cartwright was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.

★13 Jan 1847
The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.

★19 Nov 1863
American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

★02 Sep 1864
American Civil War: Union forces entered Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city, bringing the Atlanta Campaign to a close.

★04 Nov 1864
American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest led a cavalry division in an attack on a Union Army supply base at Johnsonville, Tennessee, that resulted in the capture of 150 prisoners.

★05 Jul 1865
Royal assent was given to an Act of Parliament allowing the Talyllyn Railway to carry passengers by steam haulage – the first narrow-gauge railway in Britain to do so from the start.

★21 Nov 1894
First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the city of Port Arthur, the Japanese Second Army began a massacre of the residents of the city—soldiers and civilians.

★04 Jul 1898
The French ocean liner SS La Bourgogne collided another ship in dense fog near Sable Island and sank, resulting in 549 deaths, mostly passengers.

★22 Feb 1899
Philippine–American War: Filipino forces launched their first counterattack in a failed attempt aimed at recapturing Manila from the Americans.

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