Hamas leader dead, page-66

? last century ?
I can hardly keep track of last week

on the 6th

• 1861 US Congress passes First Confiscation Act
• 1862 Confederate ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
• 1864 Confederate forces evacuate Fort Powell in Mobile Bay, Alabama
• 1870 Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France
• 1890 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the 1st person to be executed by electric chair
• 1896 France annexes Madagascar
• 1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation
• 1905 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
• 1909 Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip
• 1910 NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
• 1914 Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I
• 1914 WWI: Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia