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Historical Event(s)
– Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
– The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
– Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
– The Hudson’s Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
– 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.
– The United States takes control of Midway Island.
– 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
– Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
– Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (d. 1941)
– Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
– Lionel Johnson, British poet (d. 1902)
– Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912)
– Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
– Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born Argentine astronomer (d. 1951)
– Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
– Albert Bassermann, German actor (d. 1952)
– Winsor McCay, American animator (d. 1934)
– Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (d. 1919)