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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.
– Celluloid is patented.
– 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.
– The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
– The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
– Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
– Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
– The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and writer (d. 1923)
– Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino statesman (d. 1964)
– Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (d. 1939)
– Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
– Arthur Rostron, Captain of the Titanic (d. 1940)
– Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France (d. 1945)
– Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
– Ben Lindsey, American jurist and social reform advocate (d. 1934)
– Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (d. 1935)
– Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954)