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The Flag That Came Down on the Mersey

November 6, 1865

The Flag That Came Down on the Mersey

A Confederate warship kept burning ships in the Arctic months after the South had fallen, then ran halfway around the world to surrender. Was its captain an honorable last holdout, or a man fleeing the gallows?

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  1. 1429The infant Henry VI was formally crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey following the death of his father.
  2. 1528Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca washed ashore on Galveston Island, becoming the first known European in Texas.
  3. 1813The Congress of Chilpancingo officially approved the solemn act declaring the independence of North America from Spanish colonial rule.
  4. 1860Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won the United States presidential election, prompting several Southern states to threaten secession.
  5. 1917Canadian and British forces captured the ruined village of Passchendaele in Belgium, concluding months of bloody fighting.
  6. 1917Bolshevik revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky launched an armed insurrection against the provisional government in Petrograd.
  7. 1962The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning South Africa for its racial apartheid policies and urging trade sanctions.
  8. 1973Coleman Young made history by winning election as the first African American mayor of Detroit, Michigan.
  9. 1985Leftist guerrillas stormed the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, sparking a devastating military siege that left dozens dead.
  10. 1986A commercial helicopter returning from a North Sea oil platform crashed near Sumburgh Airport in Scotland, killing forty-five passengers and crew.
  11. 1999Voters across Australia rejected a proposed constitutional referendum that would have replaced the British monarch with an appointed president.

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