The USS Constitution, America's most famous sailing ship, twice came close to oblivion. The French army under Napoleon III takes Magenta from the Austrian army after a bloody battle in northern Italy. The Italian Campaign of 1859. The fortress of Osaka, Japan, falls to shogun Ieyasu after a six-month siege. With General William T. Sherman again flanking them, Confederates under General Joseph Johnston retreat to the mountains before Marietta, Georgia.
Gold is discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.
1918 French and American troops halt Germany's offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France. The U.S. Senate passes the Women's Suffrage bill. Women in the workplace. 1940 British complete the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk. RAF officer Aidan MacCarthy narrowly escaped the Nazis at Dunkirk.