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Historical Event(s)
– The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
– Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
– The last of Titokowaru’s forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
– Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
– The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
– Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
– Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
– The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
– Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
– American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ruby Laffoon, 43rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 1941)
– Emperor Kien Phuc, the 7th emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1884)
– Arthur Rostron, Captain of the Titanic (d. 1940)
– Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
– Walford Davies, English composer, Master of the King’s Music (d. 1941)
– Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
– Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist and publicist (d. 1943)
– Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
– Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (d. 1918)