Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster & Moore (d. 1942)
Walter Selby Buckmaster (16 October 1872 – 30 October 1942) was a British polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
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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.