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Historical Event(s)
– The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
– Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea’s status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China.
– 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.
– White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
– Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
– In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town’s bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
– 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.
– New Zealand’s provincial government system is dissolved.
– Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
– Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish Field Marshal and Prime Minister (d. 1950)
– Warren McLaughlin, American baseball player (d. 1923)
– Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)
– Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
– Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
– William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
– Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
– Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian theatre entrepreneur (d. 1942)
– Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)