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★29 Jan 1863
American Indian Wars: The U.S. Army led by Patrick Edward Connor massacred Chief Bear Hunter and Shoshone forces at the Bear River Massacre in present-day Franklin County, Idaho.

★02 Mar 1865
New Zealand Wars: Carl Sylvius Völkner, a Protestant missionary, was killed by Hauhau militants in Ōpōtiki for working as an agent for George Grey, Governor-General of New Zealand.

★16 Oct 1869
Girton College, one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge and England's first residential college for women, was founded.

★07 May 1875
Japan and Russia signed the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, where Japan ceded its portion of Sakhalin Island in exchange for the Kuril Islands, but differences in translations led to the ongoing Kuril Islands dispute between them.

★03 Mar 1891
Shoshone National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming was established as the country's first National Forest.

★01 Aug 1892
Belgian carillonneur Jef Denyn hosted the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen.

★18 Dec 1916
The French defeated German forces around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France, ending the longest and one of the bloodiest battles in the First World War.

★16 Apr 1917
World War I: A massive assault by several French army corps against the German-occupied Chemin des Dames ridge began south of Laon, France.

★23 Apr 1918
First World War: The British Royal Navy conducted an unsuccessful raid on the German-occupied port of Bruges-Zeebrugge in Belgium.

★10 Jun 1925
The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant church, held its inaugural service in Toronto's Mutual Street Arena.

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