Thomas McKean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 83

Death

1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast

Event

Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898

Birth

Battle of Carabobo; Bol¡var defeats royalists outside of Caracas

Event

Birkett Davenport Fry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891

Birth

Edward Harland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1915

Birth

Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism)

Birth

Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift and Co

Birth

Louis Brassin, composer

Birth

Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx

Event

Ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary)

Birth

Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy

Event

Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished

Event

Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer

Birth

Brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions)

Birth

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member

Birth

Peter S Kíyer, Danish painter/sculptor/graphic artist

Birth

Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918)

Birth

Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria

Event

Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries

Event

Abdl-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61), dies at 38

Death

Tennessee becomes 11th (and last) state to secede from US

Event

Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac

Event

2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army

Event

Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer

Birth