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Historical Event(s)
– The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
– Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
– In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
– The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
– The Paris Commune falls.
– The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
– The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
– Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
– Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.
– Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
– Dame Gruev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1906)
– Walter Russell, American polymath (d. 1963)
– Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (d. 1928)
– Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
– Georges Gauthier, French-Canadian Catholic bishop (d. 1940)
– William Watt, Premier of Victoria, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives (d. 1946)
– Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
– Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
– Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945)