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Historical Event(s)
– The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
– China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
– Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
– Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
– In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
– In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
– General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
– In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
– The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
– Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
Who Were Born On ?
– Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, first President of Turkey (d. 1938)
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (d. 1955)
– G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
– George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
– Walther von Brauchitsch, German statesman (d. 1948)
– Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist (d. 1908)
– Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (d. 1960)
– Jacob Fichman, Romanian-born Israeli poet and essayist (d. 1958)
– Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965)