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Historical Event(s)
– In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
– The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
– Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
– A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
– Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London.
– The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
– David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
– Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
– Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
– Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
Who Were Born On ?
– Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)
– John Alexander Buchanan, Canadian politician and civil engineer (d. 1976)
– Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
– Nishizō Tsukahara, Japanese naval commander (d. 1966)
– Jamini Roy, Indian/Bengali painter (d. 1972)
– Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
– Phan Khoi, Vietnamese intellectual (d. 1959)
– István Kühár, Slovene (Prekmurian) writer and politician (d. 1922)
– George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. 1972)
– Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)