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Arthur Henry Adams
1872Dec, 6

Arthur Henry Adams

Arthur Henry Adams, Australian journalist and author (d. 1936)
Arthur Henry Adams (6 June 1872 – 4 March 1936) was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London.

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Events on 1872

  • 5Mar

    Railway air brake

    George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
  • 22Mar

    Gender equality

    Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
  • 22May

    Amnesty Act

    Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
  • 18Nov

    United States presidential election, 1872

    Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for illegal voting in the United States presidential election of 1872.
  • 9Dec

    P. B. S. Pinchback

    In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.