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Historical Event(s)
– The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
– 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.
– Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
– Luxembourg gains its independence.
– Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
– Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
– The United States takes control of Midway Island.
– Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
– 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
– Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
Who Were Born On ?
– Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
– Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
– Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
– John Robert Gregg, American inventor (d. 1948)
– Margaret Brown, American activist, philanthropist, and RMS Titanic passenger (d. 1932)
– Ernest Dowson, English poet (d. 1900)
– Evelina Haverfield British suffragette (d. 1920)
– John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1933)
– Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
– Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)