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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
– At Gilmore’s Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
– Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
– The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
– 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.
– Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
– Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
– The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lewis Terman, American psychologist (d. 1956)
– Eddie Cochems, Father of the Forward Pass in American football (d. 1953)
– Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
– Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
– Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
– Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
– Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
– Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)
– Mike O'Neill, Irish baseball player (d. 1959)
– Joan Gamper, Swiss businessman (d. 1930)