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Historical Event(s)
– Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
– First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
– Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
– Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
– The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
– Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
– The Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
– The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
– First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
– The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
Who Were Born On ?
– Douglas Hyde, Irish President of Ireland (d. 1949)
– Curtis Guild, Jr., American politician (d. 1915)
– Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
– James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
– J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)
– Ottó Bláthy, AHungarian electrical engineer (d. 1939)
– Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of dictator Adolf Hitler (d. 1907)
– Alberto Franchetti, Italian opera composer (d. 1942)
– Hjalmar Branting, Swedish diplomat; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
– Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)