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Historical Event(s)
– Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
– China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
– Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
– Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
– Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
– In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
– The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
– General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
– U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
– A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
– Thomas Quinlan, musical impresario (d. 1951)
– Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
– Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
– Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959)
– Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
– Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973)
– Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
– Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
– Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (d. 1944)