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Historical Event(s)
– Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke’s Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
– Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke’s Drift ends.
– The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
– 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.
– In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
– New York, New York’s Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
– Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burnt to the ground, thus, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
– Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the “Twofold Covenant” and create the Dual Alliance.
– The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
– Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hod Stuart, Canadian hockey player (d. 1907)
– Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
– Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
– Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
– Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960)
– Knud Rasmussen, Greenlander explorer (d. 1933)
– Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader (d. 1963)
– Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1970)
– Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
– Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (d. 1941)