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Historical Event(s)
– Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain.
– Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
– The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
– In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
– In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
– In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
– Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
– The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
– U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
– The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
Who Were Born On ?
– Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961)
– Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, first President of Turkey (d. 1938)
– Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
– Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
– Lima Barreto, Brazilian author (d. 1922)
– Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956)
– Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973)
– Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)
– Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (d. 1944)
– Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965)