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Historical Event(s)
– John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
– The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
– The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
– The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
– Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
– Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
– Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
– Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
– In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
– The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
Who Were Born On ?
– Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist, composer (d. 1938)
– Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919)
– Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950)
– Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
– Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
– Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
– Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer and adventurer (d. 1938)
– Thomas W. Lamont, American banker (d. 1948)
– Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1873)
– Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese scholar (d. 1966)