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Historical Event(s)
– Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
– The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
– Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
– The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
– Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
– Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
– The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
– Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
– The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
– A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
– Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
– Orval Overall, American baseball player (d. 1947)
– Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
– Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
– Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
– Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
– Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (d. 1944)
– Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)