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Historical Event(s)
– Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria
– Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
– Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
– The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich (“the Compromise”) is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary.
– The United States takes control of Midway Island.
– The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
– Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
– Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
– United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
Who Were Born On ?
– Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
– Lionel Johnson, British poet (d. 1902)
– Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, (d. 1957)
– Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer (d. 1925)
– Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (d. 1938)
– Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born Argentine astronomer (d. 1951)
– John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1933)
– Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
– Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d. 1937)
– Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)