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Historical Event(s)
– Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique in Paris.
– Alexandra Palace reopens after the 1873 fire burnt it down.
– Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
– The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
– The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
– Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel
– The first official game of Polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British Ranchers.
– Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
– First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
– Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.
Who Were Born On ?
– Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
– Issai Schur, German mathematician (d. 1941)
– D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
– Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)
– Edgar Wallace, English writer (d. 1932)
– Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
– Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian painter (d. 1957)
– William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
– Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)
– Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (d. 1944)