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Historical Event(s)
– Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
– Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
– Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
– The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
– The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
– British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
– The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
– Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
– Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.
– The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
– Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
– Schofield Haigh, British cricketer (d. 1921)
– Heinrich Schroth, German actor (d. 1945)
– Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925)
– Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
– Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
– James E. Ferguson, American politician, 26th Governor of Texas (d. 1944)
– J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
– Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)