Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian/sociologist

Birth

1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long)

Event

Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass

Event

Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)

Birth

Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter

Birth

Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)

Birth

Francis Fessenden, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906

Birth

Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899)

Birth

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)

Birth

1st Dutch public telegram

Event

Nathaniel Herreshoff, America Cup yacht designer

Birth

Henry Wells and William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo

Event

Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor)

Birth

Dutch Van der Brugghen govt resigns

Event

Vera Cruz besieged by Miram¢n (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform

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Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten)

Birth

Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240

Event

Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time

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Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL

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Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer

Birth

John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18)

Birth

Michael G de Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)

Birth

[Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British PM (C, 1937-40)

Birth

1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland Calif)

Event

Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48

Death