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Historical Event(s)
– Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
– Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
– In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian’s 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
– Fenian raids: Fenians are victorious in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
– 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
– Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
– The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
– The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
– Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
– Venice - Annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy - At Hotel Europa, Austria hands over Veneto to France, which hands it immediately over to Italy.
Who Were Born On ?
– Dimitrios Gounaris, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922)
– William G. Conley, American politician and 18th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1940)
– Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931)
– Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (d. 1922)
– Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor (d. 1910)
– Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924)
– George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
– Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
– Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge and baseball commissioner (d. 1944)
– Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, 17th Yokozuna (d. 1914)