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Historical Event(s)
– Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke’s Drift ends.
– In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
– Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
– Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
– The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the ship .
– Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
– The opening of the Poor Man’s Palace in Manchester.
– Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the “Twofold Covenant” and create the Dual Alliance.
– World première of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.
– The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
Who Were Born On ?
– Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist (d. 1962)
– Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born British politician (d. 1964)
– Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)
– Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)
– Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (d. 1936)
– Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
– Cyril Scott, English composer (d. 1970)
– Patrick Pearse, Irish political activist (d. 1916)
– Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, Queen Consort to Christian X (d. 1952)
– Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (d. 1954)