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Historical Event(s)
– Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
– Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.
– A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
– The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
– The Colfax Massacre takes place.
– Oscar II is crowned King of Sweden.
– Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
– Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
– Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
– Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914)
– Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
– Alfred Kubin, Austrian expressionist illustrator and writer (d. 1959)
– Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1944)
– Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (d. 1940)
– Wacław Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940)
– Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
– Edwin Flack, Australian athlete (d. 1935)
– Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
– Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (d. 1957)