Today in History for December 1868
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Months in 1868: January February March April May June July August September October November
Historical Events
Events 1 - 9 of 9
1st - John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war
2nd - 1st British government of Disraeli resigns
3rd - 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial
5th - 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
7th - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
9th - 1st British government of Gladstone forms
10th - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
15th - Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in HokkaidÅ.
25th - Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 13 of 13
2nd - Francis Jammes, French poet/writer (Jammisme)
4th - Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter
4th - Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (d. 1953)
5th - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951)
9th - Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist (Nobel 1919)
10th - Louis Victor Saar, composer
11th - Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer
14th - Richard Batka, composer
20th - Harvey Firestone, Columbia, Ohio, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road, (d. 1938)
22nd - John Nance Garner, Texas, (VP-D-1933-41)
24th - Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21)
25th - Eugenie Besserer, Watertown NY, actress (Jazz Singer)
28th - Marie van Regteren Altena, Dutch painter (Amsterdam's Joffers)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 4 of 4
6th - August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
13th - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)
24th - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
25th - Linus Yale, developer of cylinder lock, dies
