1870

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian Revolutionary)

Leonora O’Reilly (Union leader and co-founder of the NAACP)

Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the first black sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives.

The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.

General Robert E. Lee, the Confederate military commander, died in Lexington, Virginia, at age 63.

Italian troops took control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy.

The Franco-Prussian War began.

Georgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.

The first section of the Atlantic City, New Jersey, Boardwalk opened to the public.

Congress created the Department of Justice.

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