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Historical Event(s)
– A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the “Molly Maguires”, to disband.
– The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
– Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
– The first ever National League is played in Philadelphia.
– An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
– Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook’s forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
– Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
– The American Library Association was founded.
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.
– The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
Who Were Born On ?
– Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
– Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (1879-his death) (d. 1933)
– Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
– Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)
– Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian (d. 1940)
– Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
– Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (d. 1957)
– Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
– Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1968)
– Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)