1869

John Heisman (Football coach)

Mohandas K. Gandhi (Civil rights leader in India)

Typhoid Mary (First person in the United States to be immune to typhoid, Carrier of the disease)

Neville Chamberlain (British Prime Minister)

Grigori Rasputin (Russian monk and confidant of Russian Tsar Nicholas II)

William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patented chewing gum.

Women were granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory.

The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers beat Princeton, six goals to four.

Thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.

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