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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.
– Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
– Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
– 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.
– 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 Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
– First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
Who Were Born On ?
– Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)
– Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
– Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress (d. 1961)
– Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)
– Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)
– Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
– Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
– Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952)
– Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d. 1948)
– Hans Carossa, German writer (d. 1956)