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Historical Event(s)
– Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
– A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
– Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
– The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
– E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
– The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.
– The Colfax Massacre takes place.
– Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
– Oscar II is crowned King of Sweden.
– Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
Who Were Born On ?
– Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
– Walter de la Mare, English poet (d. 1956)
– Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1944)
– Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
– Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
– Alfred Jarry, French playwright (d. 1907)
– Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
– Edwin Flack, Australian athlete (d. 1935)
– Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)
– Blagoje Bersa, Croatian composer (d. 1934)