Today in History for February 1870
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Months in 1870: January March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Events 1 - 14 of 14
2nd - Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum
3rd - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
5th - 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
9th - US Army establishes US National Weather Service
10th - City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
10th - YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC)
12th - Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
15th - Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn
17th - Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge
17th - Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War
23rd - Mississippi is readmitted to US
25th - Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)
26th - 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)
28th - The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 9 of 9
3rd - Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Il Libro di Mara)
7th - Alfred Adler, Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)
10th - Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter
12th - Marie Lloyd, English music-hall performer (d. 1922)
13th - Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
17th - Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder (Flemish People's Party)
18th - William Laurel Harris, American mural painter, writer (d. 1924)
20th - Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)
27th - Louis Coerne, composer
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 1 of 1
2nd - American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34) marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 4 of 4
11th - Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch min of Internal Aff (1848-49), dies at 76
11th - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66
14th - St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
26th - Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched
