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Historical Event(s)
– Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
– Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
– The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
– 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.
– White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
– Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
– Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
– The American Library Association was founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish Field Marshal and Prime Minister (d. 1950)
– Pope Pius XII (d. 1958)
– Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
– Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
– Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
– Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
– Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1911 (d. 1964)
– Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)
– Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1936)
– Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (d. 1928)