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Historical Event(s)
– The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
– Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
– Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.
– The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
– A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
– The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
– The Mounties begin their March West.
– Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
– A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
– The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
Who Were Born On ?
– Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (d. 1956)
– Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
– Romaine Brooks, American painter (d. 1970)
– Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
– Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951)
– Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
– Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
– József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (d. 1948)
– August Krogh, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1949)
– Josef Lhévinne, Russian-born pianist (d. 1944)