Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
The Donner Party on the California Wagon trail trapped in the Sierra Nevada, 1846.
16-year-old Jesse James posing with three pistols, Platte City, Missouri, July 10, 1864.
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