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Historical Event(s)
– A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the “Molly Maguires”, to disband.
– The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
– Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
– Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
– Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
– An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
– Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
– Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
– The American Library Association was founded.
– A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.
Who Were Born On ?
– Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (d. 1967)
– Henry Blogg, English lifeboatman, George Cross and British Empire Medal recipient (d. 1954)
– Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
– Borisav Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
– Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian (d. 1940)
– Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
– Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (d. 1960)
– Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
– André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)