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The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED STATES
First American abolitionist organization


U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the following day.
📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES
1865 murder in Washington, D.C., US

The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight occurs in El Paso
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
1881 shootout in the streets of El Paso, Texas
The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
International organization
The first ever commercial motion picture house opens in New York City
📜 CINEMA🌍 UNITED STATES
Visual art consisting of moving images

The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President following its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
📜 CITIES🌍 RUSSIA
Country in Eastern Europe and West Asia


American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES
1775–1783 armed conflict in North America

Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly.
📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL
Hungarian statesman (1802–1894)

American Civil War: Union forces surrender Fort Sumter to Confederate forces.
📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES
1861–1865 conflict in the United States


The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED STATES
Art museum in New York City

The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
National memorial in Washington, D.C.



An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL
1975 armed clashes between Phalangist and Palestinian organizations in Beirut, Lebanon
The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson’s 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
📜 FINANCE🌍 UNITED STATES
United States federal executive department