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Historical Event(s)
– The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York, New York.
– In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
– East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
– American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
– The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
– The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
– In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
– American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
– In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
– Mark Twain’s short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
Who Were Born On ?
– Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
– Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
– Zoravar Andranik Armenian general, political and public activist and freedom fighter (d. 1927)
– Patsy Donovan, American baseball player (d. 1953)
– Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
– Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940)
– Philipp Scheidemann, First Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (d. 1939)
– Arthur James Arnot, Scottish inventor (d. 1946)
– Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)