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Historical Event(s)
– Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria
– The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
– Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
– The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
– The United States takes control of Midway Island.
– The 15th and the last military Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan, returning his power to the Emperor of Japan and thence to the re-established civil government of Japan
– 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.
– Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
– United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (d. 1941)
– Edward B. Titchener, British psychologist. (d. 1927)
– J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)
– Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
– Charles Fabry, French physicist (d. 1945)
– Flora Finch, British-American silent-film comedienne (d. 1940)
– Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
– Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1920)
– Amy Carmichael, missionary in Dohnavur, India (d. 1951)
– Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (d. 1919)