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Historical Event(s)
– Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
– The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
– The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
– The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
– Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
– Treaty of Berlin: the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.
– Emma Nutt becomes the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
– Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat SS Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
– The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
– John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
Who Were Born On ?
– Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (d. 1944)
– Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
– Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
– Aino Kallas, Finnish-born Estonian author (d. 1956)
– Frank Jarvis, American sprinter (d. 1933)
– Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920)
– Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1952)
– Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)
– Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian writer (d. 1937)