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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.
– Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
– Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
– The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
– Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
– White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
– In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town’s bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
– New Zealand’s provincial government system is dissolved.
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.
– Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.
Who Were Born On ?
– Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
– Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
– Constantin Brâncuşi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)
– Pope Pius XII (d. 1958)
– Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (d. 1958)
– Aleksandar Obrenović, King of Serbia (d. 1903)
– Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer, rugby union and soccer player (d. 1913)
– Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)
– Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1936)
– Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)