Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates

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Samuel Garland Jr, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle

Death

Robert Cecil, viscount of Chelwood (Nobel 1937)

Birth

Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations (Nobel 1937)

Birth

Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"

Birth

Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole)

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Britain pays US $15« M for damages during Civil War

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Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer, dies at 48

Death

Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda

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Leopold II closes Congo-conference

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Margaret Sanger, feminist/nurse/birth control proponent

Birth

Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes)

Birth

Harald Fryklof, composer

Birth

British General Wolseley reaches Cairo

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Martin Dibelius, German theologist (Die Lade Jahwes)

Birth

Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor/composer (Batture d'aspetto)

Birth

Hubert Reis, composer, dies at 84

Death

George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon

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Jan Garrique Masaryk, Czech, statesman/minister to London (1918-35)

Birth

Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ (1908-10)

Birth

Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist

Birth

Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer), dies

Death

"Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M

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AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo

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Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails

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