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Historical Event(s)
– A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
– E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
– A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
– The Colfax Massacre takes place.
– Oscar II is crowned King of Sweden.
– The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
– Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
– Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
– Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
– Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
– John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (d. 1949)
– William Green, American labor union leader (d. 1952)
– Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (d. 1958)
– Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
– Lucy Beaumont, English actress (d. 1937)
– Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
– Wacław Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940)
– Plum Warner, English cricketer (d. 1963)
– Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)