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Historical Event(s)
– The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
– Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
– The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
– After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
– The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
– The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
– Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
– Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London.
– Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
– Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
– Marie Lloyd, English music-hall performer (d. 1922)
– William Laurel Harris, American mural painter and writer (d. 1924)
– Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (d. 1948)
– Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)
– Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1954)
– Georges Dufrénoy, French post-impressionnist painter (d. 1943)
– Lambert McKenna, Irish Jesuit priest and scholar of the Irish language (d. 1956)
– Charles Davidson Dunbar, British military piper (d. 1939)
– Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)