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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
– The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
– Woman’s suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
– Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
– Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
– “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.
– In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
Who Were Born On ?
– Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)
– José Vicente de Freitas, Portuguese military officer and politician (d. 1952)
– Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1959)
– Prince George of Greece and Denmark (d. 1957)
– William Strunk, Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
– Joseph Duveen, British art dealer (d. 1939)
– John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
– Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France (d. 1945)
– António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951)
– Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (d. 1935)