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Historical Event(s)
– Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
– Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
– The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
– The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
– Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
– Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
– The inaugural Wimbledon Championships opens.
– The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.
– Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
– Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
Who Were Born On ?
– Louis Renault, French automobile executive (d. 1944)
– Isidora Sekulić, Serbian prose writer, novelist and essayist (d. 1958)
– Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
– Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
– Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
– James Hopwood Jeans, English scientist (d. 1946)
– Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957)
– Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)
– Frank Calder, British-born Canadian sports executive (d. 1943)
– Alben W. Barkley, American politician and 35th Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)