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Historical Event(s)
– African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
– Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
– Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
– Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
– 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.
– Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
– United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
– 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
– The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
– Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
Who Were Born On ?
– Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
– Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
– Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire (d. 1934)
– Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (d. 1940)
– Stanley Baldwin, English politician (d. 1947)
– Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)
– Edith Hamilton, German-born American classicist (d. 1963)
– Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
– Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
– Kantarō Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)