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Historical Event(s)
– National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
– Celluloid is patented.
– The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
– The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
– Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.
– The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
– Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
– The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
– Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
– Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
Who Were Born On ?
– Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)
– F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936)
– Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist living in the United States (d. 1943)
– Mary Jane Colter, American architect (d. 1958)
– Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
– Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922)
– Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961)
– John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
– Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
– Ellis Parker Butler, American author (d. 1937)