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Historical Event(s)
– Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
– Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
– Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
– President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
– Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern “Memorial Day”) is observed in the United States for the first time (By “Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic” John A. Logan’s proclamation on May 5).
– Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
– 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.
– Grito de Lares (“Lares Revolt”) occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
– The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King’s garden in Stockholm.
– U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
Who Were Born On ?
– King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
– Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
– Alice Keppel, English socialite and mistress of King Edward VII (d. 1947)
– Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, member of the British Royal Family (d. 1935)
– Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)
– Hong Beom-do, Korean independence activist (d. 1943)
– Théodore Botrel, was a French singer-songwriter, poet and playwright(d. 1925)
– James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
– Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
– Harvey Firestone, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)