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The Battle of Dyrrhachium, is fought during the Roman Civil War. It was a significant engagement between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. While Pompey ultimately won the battle, it was a strategic victory for Caesar as he managed to withdraw his forces and later decisively defeat Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus.
Duke Albert I of Austria defeats deposed King Adolf of Germany at the Battle of Göllheim where Adolf was also killed. Adolf had been unilaterally deposed by the prince-electors to dethrone him after who then proclaimed Albert as the new King of Germany.
The Battle of Adwalton Moor takes place during the English Civil War, resulting in a decisive victoy for the Parliamentarian forces.
Shawnee Chief Tecumseh calls on all Native peoples to unite and resist the growing loss land to the white settlers. proposing that if united, the various tribes had enough strength to stop the white settlers. More
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Enslaved Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad, led by Joseph Cinque revolt against the Spanish officers and crew who were their captors and gained control of the ship near the coast of Cuba. They were being transported to a sugar plantation at Puerto Principe, Cuba after been captured In February of 1839 by Portuguese slave hunters from Sierra Leone.
They had been captured In February of 1839 when Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone and shipped them to Havana, Cuba. Eventually the mutineers were captured and tried in the U.S. Courts. Where the U.S. Supreme Court render a decision to freed them in 1841. The case had important political and legal repercussions in the American abolition movement. More
President James A. Garfield was shot and mortally wounded by an assassin with a .44 handgun, as he entered a railway station in Washington, D.C. Garfield's doctors were unable to remove the bullet, which was lodged in the President's pancreas. He died of blood poisoning and complications from the shooting in a hospital room on September 19th. 1881. More
Amelia Earhart and Navigator Fred Noonan disappear on Round-the-World Flight. Earhart and Noonan never found Howland Island and they were declared lost at sea on July 19, 1937 following a massive sea and air search. More
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. More
