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★01 Jun 1861
The first land battle of the American Civil War after Fort Sumter took place in the village of Fairfax, Virginia.

★16 Apr 1862
Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.

★19 Mar 1865
American Civil War: The last battle of the Carolinas Campaign, the Battle of Bentonville, began, which contributed to the ultimate Union victory in the war.

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

★06 Aug 1890
At Auburn Prison in the U.S. state of New York, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed by electric chair.

★18 Mar 1892
Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate an award for Canada's top-ranked amateur ice hockey club, now known as the Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America.

★10 Sep 1897
A sheriff's posse fired upon a peaceful labor demonstration made up of mostly Polish and Slovak anthracite coal miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, U.S., killing 19 people and wounding many others.

★28 Jul 1917
In New York City, the NAACP and church and community leaders organized a silent march of at least 8,000 people to protest violence directed towards African Americans.

★03 Jun 1921
At his trial for the assassination of Talat Pasha, viewed as the main orchestrator of the Armenian genocide, Soghomon Tehlirian was acquitted after arguing: "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer.".

★14 Sep 1927
In a freak automobile accident, dancer Isadora Duncan died of a broken neck in Nice, France, after her scarf was caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger.

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