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Historical Event(s)
– Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
– Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
– The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
– In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
– In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
– The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
– The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
– Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
– The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
– The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
Who Were Born On ?
– Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
– Arch McCarthy, American baseball player (d. unknown)
– Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (d. 1955)
– Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (d. 1959)
– Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
– Vin Coutie, Australian footballer
– George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (d. 1961)
– Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
– Aubrey Faulkner, South African cricketer (d. 1930)