French troops established a bridgehead around Karahojali east of the Vadar River in Macedonia.
Efforts to repair the Endurance having failed, Ernest Shackletn ordered the ship abandoned.
Denver's first Mayor, John C. Moore, died in his early 80s.
Elected before the Civil War, he was a Southerner with strong Southern views and returned to the South to serve in the Confederate forces during the war, rising to the rank of Colonel in the Confederate Army. He was a lawyer by training.
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The United States Army accepted the delivery of a Wright Military Flyer.
The Wright brothers were hired at the same time to train the first two pilots, Lts. Frank P. Lahm and Frederick E. Humphreys
It was just six years after the first flight, and less than a decade before airplanes would become a major weapon of war.
Lincoln penneys went into circulation. The 1909 penny had the equivalent of $.35 spending power in contemporary dollars.
It replaced the Indian head penny that had been in circulation since 1859.
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