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Historical Event(s)
– The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
– Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
– Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
– The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
– Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
– League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
– Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, immortalized in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
– The coat of arms of the Baku governorate is established.
– Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat SS Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
– The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
Who Were Born On ?
– Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)
– Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (d. 1936)
– Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress (d. 1961)
– Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952)
– Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (d. 1938)
– James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
– Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
– Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
– William Aberhart, Canadian politician (d. 1943)
– Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (d. 1966)