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Historical Event(s)
– Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
– Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
– Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
– The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
– President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
– The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
– The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
– Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
– Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
– U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
Who Were Born On ?
– Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940)
– W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)
– William Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932)
– King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
– Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
– Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
– Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
– Bernarr McFadden, American publisher (d. 1955)
– Emil Racovita, Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica (d. 1947)
– Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)