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Historical Event(s)
– The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
– Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
– More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
– Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
– The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
– The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
– The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
– The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
– University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
– The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ion Antonescu, Romanian politician (d. 1946)
– Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker and illustrator (d. 1971)
– Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
– Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (d. 1946)
– Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor (d. 1971)
– Gisela Richter, British-born art historian (d. 1972)
– William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
– Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (d. 1963)
– Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
– Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)