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1542 The English defeat the Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss in England.

1859 Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. The first printing of 1,250 copies sells out in a single day.

1863 In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces take Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1864 Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attack a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls.

1874 Joseph Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire.

1902 The first Congress of Professional Photographers convenes in Paris.

1912 Austria denounces Serbian gains in the Balkans; Russia and France back Serbia while Italy and Germany back Austria.

1927 Federal officials battle 1,200 inmates after prisoners in Folsom Prison revolt.

1938 Mexico seizes oil land adjacent to Texas.

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