1860
Honest Abe is elected
Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
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1861
Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America.
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1869
The first intercollegiate soccer game took place (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).
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1893
Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.
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1913
Mohandas Gandhi led a march of miners in South Africa. He was arrested three times in the first four days of the march.
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