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Historical Event(s)
– The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
– Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.
– Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
– At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
– Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
– Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened.
– Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
– Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
– A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
– Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
Who Were Born On ?
– Thérèse of Lisieux, French Roman Catholic nun (d. 1897)
– Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914)
– George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
– Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and statesman (d. 1956)
– Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938)
– Kyösti Kallio, Finnish president (d. 1940)
– Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
– Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
– Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
– Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)