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Historical Event(s)
– National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
– The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
– Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
– Celluloid is patented.
– Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.
– The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
– “Black Friday”: Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
– Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
– The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people’s wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
– In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ruby Laffoon, 43rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 1941)
– Else Lasker-Schüler, German writer (d. 1945)
– Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
– Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942)
– Hans Poelzig, German architect (d. 1936)
– Emma Goldman, Lithuanian/American anarchist and feminist (d. 1940)
– Adrien-Maurice-Victurnien-Mathieu, 8th duc de Noailles (d. 1953)
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian independence movement figure (d. 1948)
– Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
– Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist (d. 1946)