1872

4-Jul

Calvin Coolidge (former U.S. President)

18-May

Bertrand Russell (English mathematician and philosopher)

31-Jan

Zane Grey (Author)

4-Jan

Selena Butler (African American leader of interracial cooperation)

11-Dec

America’s first black governor took office as Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became acting governor of Louisiana.

9-Nov

Fire destroyed nearly 800 buildings in Boston, Massachusetts.

5-Nov

Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election for Ulysses S. Grant. (Anthony never did pay

18-Jul

Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot.

22-May

Congress passed the Reconstruction measure known as the General Amnesty Act which removed office holding disqualifications against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the

1-Mar

Congress authorized he creation of Yellowstone National Park.

4-Jul

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