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Historical Event(s)
– Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
– U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
– Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
– Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
– Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
– May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
– The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
– 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.
– Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.
– The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
Who Were Born On ?
– Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
– Eddie Cochems, Father of the Forward Pass in American football (d. 1953)
– Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1972)
– Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
– James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (d. 1960)
– Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
– Mike O'Neill, Irish baseball player (d. 1959)
– James Hopwood Jeans, English scientist (d. 1946)
– Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952)
– Enrico De Nicola, 1st President of the Italian Republic (d. 1959)