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Historical Event(s)
– In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
– The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
– The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
– Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
– Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
– A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
– Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
– Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
– Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
– Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
Who Were Born On ?
– Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (d. 1946)
– Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
– James Ormsbee Chapin, American painter and illustrator (d. 1975)
– Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915)
– Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
– Nadia Boulanger, French composer and teacher (d. 1979)
– Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
– Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (d. 1947)
– Joseph Lamb, American ragtime composer (d. 1960)
– Alvin York, American soldier & Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)