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Police crossing notice from 1868[/caption]
In the year 1868, the last convict ship from England to Australia arrives in Western Australia (Jan 9), the first identified skeletons of Cro-Magnon are discovered in France (Mar), MetLife is founded in New York City (Mar 24), United Kingdom decides to end public hanging (May 29), the Navajo people begin their long march home to Arizona and New Mexico (Jul 18), the name of the city of Edo changes to Tokyo (Sep 3), the 265-year long Edo period in Japan ends to give way to the new Meiji period (Oct 23), Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder (Oct 28), the world’s first traffic signal lights are installed in London, England (Dec 9) - and all these fine people were born:
1868-0121 Felix Hoffmann* chemist/pharmacist/probable inventor of aspirin - Ludwigsburg, Germany (1946/78)
1868-0129 Leonard Typpö* farmer/lay preacher/politician - Rautio, GD of Finland (1922/54)
1868-0216 Kjeld Stubs* priest/politician - Sigdal, Buskeryd, Norway (1955/86)
1868-0223 Anna Hofman-Uddgren* actress/cabaret singer/theatre director - Stockholm, Sweden (1947/79)
1868-0305 Agnes von Konow* pioneering animal rights activist - Hollola, GD of Finland (1944/76)
1868-0322 Robert Andrews Millikan* physicist/N - Morrison, IL USA (1953/85)
1868-0328 Maxim Gorky* writer/activist - Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire (1936/68)
1868-0404 Philippa Fawcett* mathematician/educator - Cambridge, England (1948/80)
1868-0422 Flora Call Disney* mother of Walt Disney - Steuben, OH USA (1938/70)
1868-0428 Hélène de Pourtalès* (b Helen Barbey) American-Swiss sailor/ OG - New York City, NY USA (1945/77)
1868-0501 Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse* King-elect of Finland - Gut Panker, Plön, Kingdom of Prussia (1940/72)
1868-0517 Horace Dodge* co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company - Niles, MI USA (1920/52)
1868-0518 Nicholas II of Russia* the last Emperor of All Russia - Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire (1918/50)
1868-0606 Robert Falcon Scott* navy officer/explorer - Plymouth, Devon, England (1912/43)
1868-0607 Charles Rennie Mackintosh* painter/ architect/designer - Glasgow, Scotland (1928/60)
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1868-0614 Anna B. Eckstein* teacher/champion of world peace - Coburg, Germany (1947/79)
1868-0629 George Ellery Hale* solar astronomer - Chicago, IL USA (1938/69)
1868-0704 Henrietta Swan Leavitt* astronomer - Lancaster, MA USA (1921/53)
1868-0714 Gertrude Bell* writer/traveler/archaeologist - Washington Hall, County Durham, England (1926/57)
1868-0805 Oskar Merikanto* (b Kanto) pianist/composer/ conductor - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1924/55)
1868-0814 John Mead Howells* architect - Cambridge, MA USA (1959/91)
1868-0823 Edgar Lee Masters* attorney/poet/biographer - Garnett, KS USA (1950/81)
1868-0901 Henri Bourassa* political leader/publisher - Montreal, QC Canada (1952/83)
1868-0909 Mary Hunter Austin* writer/co-founder of local theaters - Carlinville, IL USA (1934/65)
1868-0922 Elizabeth Thacher Kent* environmentalist/women’s rights activist/writer - New Haven, CT USA (1952/83)
1868-1006 Vilho Penttilä* architect - Suursaari, GD of Finland (1918/49)
1868-1012 August Horch* engineer/automobile pioneer/founder of what would eventually become Audi - Winningen, Prussia (1951/82)
1868-1028 James Brendan Connolly* first modern Olympic games champion (triple jump)/author - Boston, MA USA (1957/88)
1868-1120 Mary Gallen-Kallela* (b Slöör) pianist/ wife of to Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1947/78)
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1868-1122 Milagros Benet de Mewton* educator/women’s rights advocate/suffragist - Cayey, Puerto Rico, Spanish Empire (1948/80)
1868-1123 Mary Brewster Hazelton* portrait painter - Milton, MA USA (1953/84)
1868-1205 Arnold Sommerfeld* theoretical physicist/pioneer in atomic and quantum physics - Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (1951/82)
1868-1207 Mikko Mikonpoika Hakoniemi** farmer/married to Sanna Amalia Linnusmaa/son of Mikko Juhonpoika Hakoniemi - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1964/95)
1868-1209 Fritz Haber* chemist/N - Breslau, Prussia (1934/65)
1868-1223 Herbert MacNair* painter/ designer/teacher - Glasgow, Scotland (1955/86)
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