1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking U.S. federal officials.
1854 Republican Party formally organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1915 WWI: After the French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region, they gain a few hundred yards - at the cost of 50,000 casualties.
1991 Gulf War ends after Iraq accepts a ceasefire following their retreat from Kuwait.
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