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Historical Event(s)
– Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops defeat British troops.
– Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
– Women’s rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
– Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
– The Spanish Socialist Worker‘s Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub (city of Madrid) by the historical Spanish workers’leader Pablo Iglesias.
– The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the ship .
– Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
– The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
– 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 ?
– Tane Ikai, Japanese supercentenarian. (d. 1995)
– Hod Stuart, Canadian hockey player (d. 1907)
– Terence MacSwiney, Irish nationalist (d. 1920)
– Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist (d. 1962)
– Ethel Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959)
– Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (d. 1966)
– Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader (d. 1963)
– Jane Darwell, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1967)
– Rudolf Friml, American composer (d. 1972)
– Paul Klee, Swiss-born painter (d. 1940)