Person report

★01 Dec 1828
Juan Lavalle, returning to Buenos Aires with troops that fought in the Cisplatine War, deposed the provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.

★17 Feb 1838
Zulu impis massacred about 532 Voortrekkers, Khoikhoi, and Basuto near present-day Weenen, South Africa.

★13 Jul 1863
Four days of rioting began in New York City by opponents of new laws passed by the United States Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.

★14 Dec 1863
American Civil War: The Battle of Bean's Station, the final battle of the Knoxville campaign, was fought in Grainger County, Tennessee.

★25 Feb 1866
Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that a prominent geologist claimed was proof that humans had existed during the Pliocene age.

★24 Feb 1868
Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. President to be impeached.

★02 Aug 1876
American lawman Wild Bill Hickok was murdered during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.

★23 Jun 1887
The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park as the country's first national park.

★12 Oct 1890
The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal suffrage.

★04 Apr 1905
An earthquake hit the Kangra Valley in India, killing more than 20,000 people and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj, and Dharamshala.

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