Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician

Birth

Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)

Birth

Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston

Event

Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts

Event

Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright

Birth

Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas

Event

Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer)

Birth

Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops

Event

James T Jackson, US landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead)

Death

Elmer Ellsworth, US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23

Death

Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"

Event

Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time

Event

Westminster Bridge across Thames opens

Event

Armando Frid, Argentina, live until July 28 1990 (124 years)

Birth

Berkeley, Calif named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)

Event

Jan Christian Smuts, proponnent of Commonwealth and League of Nations

Birth

Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US

Event

Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer, dies at 40

Death

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies

Death

Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit," premieres in Paris

Event

Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46

Death

5th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:45«

Event

CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston

Event

Lillian Moller Gilbreth, engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954)

Birth

William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73

Death