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Historical Event(s)
– Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
– Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
– The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich (“the Compromise”) is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary.
– Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
– The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
– Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
– 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.
– Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
– Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
Who Were Born On ?
– Edward B. Titchener, British psychologist. (d. 1927)
– Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916)
– Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)
– Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer (d. 1925)
– Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
– Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
– Margaret Brown, American activist, philanthropist, and RMS Titanic passenger (d. 1932)
– Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
– Ernest Dowson, English poet (d. 1900)
– Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)