Todays History

Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.

Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.

“Bloody Thursday”: the police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.

In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.

Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.

Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.

Lexell’s Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km;…