Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama and USS Hatteras

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Charing Cross Station opens in London

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Thomas Dixon, US attorney/playwright (Flaming Sword)

Birth

Battle of Beverly, WV

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Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220

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Adolf Ganz, composer, dies at 73

Death

Paul Graener, composer

Birth

1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago

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Joaqu¡n Alvarez Quint‚ro, Spanish dramatist/playwright (Los Galeotes)

Birth

Reinhold Gliere, composer

Birth

Pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85

Death

Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator (1926)

Birth

Antonio Beltramelli, writer

Birth

Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

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Rudolf T Palm, Cura‡ao, pianist/composer

Birth

Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo

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Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party)

Birth

George Zucco, England, actor (Adv of Sherlock Holmes, Capt Fury)

Birth

Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society)

Birth

Chester Conklin, Oskaloosa IA, actor (Every Day's a Holiday, Greed)

Birth

Monte Blue, Indianapolis IN, silent film actor (Montana, Oh Boy)

Birth

Georges-EugŠne Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81

Death

William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia

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Hawaiian Historical Society founded

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Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl

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