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Historical Event(s)
– The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
– An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
– Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut.
– Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall’s war against the French.
– The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
– The City of Anaheim is founded.
– Sheffield F.C., the world’s first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
– The Atlantic founded in Boston.
– Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
– Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
Who Were Born On ?
– Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
– Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)
– Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940)
– Williamina Fleming, British-born astronomer (d. 1911)
– Clara Zetkin, German socialist (d. 1933)
– Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
– Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
– Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937)
– Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish Language writer (d. 1942)
– Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)