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Historical Event(s)
– 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 Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
– Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled “Who’s to Blame?” in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
– The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
– Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
– The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of “Villa de Juárez”.
– General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
– 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 ?
– Honus Wagner, American baseball player (d. 1955)
– Ernest William Barnes, English mathematician and theologian (d. 1953)
– William B. Bankhead, American politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (d. 1940)
– George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
– Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
– Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)
– Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
– Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
– Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, (d. 1899)
– Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)