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Events:
January 2 -
Brigham Young, is arrested for bigamy (25 wives).
February 20 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
March 1 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
March 5 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
March 26 - Earthquake at Lone Pine, California with an estimated magnitude of 7.2 .
May 10 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the
United States.
May 22 - Reconstruction: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into
law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
November - Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horace Greeley in the U.S. presidential election.
November 5 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes
for the first time (on November 18 she was served an arrest warrant and in the subsequent
trial she was fined $100 - she never paid the fine).
November 9 - Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to
burn on Lincoln Street (the two day event destroyed about 65 acres of city, 776 buildings,
much of the financial district and caused US$60 million in damage).
November 26 - The San Francisco Evening Bulletin exposes one of the most notorious
mining scandals in US history, The Great Diamond Hoax.
November 29 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
December 4 - The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei
Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged).
December 21 - HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition
that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography.
Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition.
Births:
January 6 -
Alexander Scriabin, composer (d. 1915).
January 31 -
Zane Grey, writer (d. 1939).
March 7 -
Piet Mondrian, painter (d. 1944).
March 13 -
Jozua Joost van den Houten.
April -
Isaac Stoutjesdyk.
May 16 -
Kornelis van den Houten.
May 18 -
Bertrand Russell, philosopher and logician.
May 19 -
Martha Stoutjesdijk.
May 22 -
Leentje van den Houten.
May 31 -
Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator.
July 1 -
Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer.
July 4 -
Calvin Coolidge, American president.
July 23 -
Jacob van den Houten.
August 3 -
King Haakon VII of Norway.
August 10 -
Bill Johnson, jazz musician (d. 1972).
August 15 -
Shri Aurobindo.
August 21 -
Aubrey Beardsley, British artist.
August 29 -
Johannes de Waal.
September 19 -
Clazina (Clasina) Suurland.
November 30 -
John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (d. 1918).
December 7 -
Adriaantje van den Houten.
Jakob (Jacob) van Houten.
Deaths:
January 7 -
James Fisk, entrepreneur.
March 24 -
Jozina Hubertina van den Houten.
April 1 -
Frederick Maurice, English theologian.
April 2 -
Job Bakker.
April 2 -
Samuel Morse, inventor of the Morse code.
April 6 -
Krijn Bakker.
June 4 -
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician.
July 5 -
Pieter van den Houten.
August 4 -
Wilhelmina Quant.
October 25 -
Helena (Lena) Matthijsse.
December 1 -
Lijntje van der Spuij.
December 23 -
Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist.
Germany, Death of
Ludwig Feuerbach, German Philosophy.
Benito Juarez.
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