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Historical Event(s)
– Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
– Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
– Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
– U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
– Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
– May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
– Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
– The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
– Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
Who Were Born On ?
– Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)
– Otto Gross, Austrian psychoanalyst (d. 1920)
– Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949)
– Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
– Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
– Albert Bartha, Hungarian military officer and politician (d. 1960)
– James Hopwood Jeans, English scientist (d. 1946)
– Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
– George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
– Frank Calder, British-born Canadian sports executive (d. 1943)