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Historical Event(s)
– Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming’s proposal for standard time (and also, time zones)
– L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
– The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
– North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
– A peace treaty is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam - most of present-day Vietnam - to France.
– Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
– The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
– In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway extending across Canada.
– End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
– Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India.
Who Were Born On ?
– Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
– Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (d. 1973)
– Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
– Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist (d. 1948)
– Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
– Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (d. 1971)
– Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941)
– Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
– Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
– Roman Ungern von Sternberg, famous White Russian warlord (d.1921)