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Historical Event(s)
– Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
– 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.
– John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
– The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
– The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
– Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
– The coat of arms of the Baku governorate is established.
– Treaty of Berlin: the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.
– John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
Who Were Born On ?
– Finlay Currie, British actor (d. 1968)
– Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (d. 1944)
– Walter B. Pitkin, American lecturer (d. 1953)
– Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress (d. 1961)
– Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American engineer (d. 1972)
– Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956)
– Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
– Julie Manet, French painter, daughter of Berthe Morisot (d. 1966)
– Marshall Taylor, American cyclist (d. 1932)
– Hans Carossa, German writer (d. 1956)