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Historical Event(s)
– Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
– Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
– Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
– The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
– The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
– French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
– The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
– Brazilians defeat Paraguayans at the Battle of Avaí during the War of the Triple Alliance.
– 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 ?
– Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
– Alice Keppel, English socialite and mistress of King Edward VII (d. 1947)
– Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
– Ed Barrow, American baseball manager (d. 1953)
– Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)
– Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957)
– Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
– Florence Foster Jenkins, American opera singer (d. 1945)
– Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
– Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)