Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge)

Birth

Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union brig-gen, dies of injury at about 40

Death

Battle of Newtonia, MS

Event

Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, composer

Birth

Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I)

Birth

Battle of Preble's Farm VA (Poplar Springs Church)

Event

Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor

Event

Midway Islands formally declared a US possession

Event

Spain's Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France

Event

Ernest Jones, cricket pace bowler (marvellous Aust at turn of century)

Birth

Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)

Birth

John Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)

Birth

Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer

Birth

Katherine Griffith, SF CA, actress (Pollyanna, Fast Company)

Birth

1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)

Event

Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perc‚ indians, dies in battle

Death

1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii

Event

Henry Casadesus, composer

Birth

Ernst Isler, composer

Birth

Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of Orion Nebula

Event

Henri G Casadesus, French altviolist/composer (Viola d'amour)

Birth

George Bancroft, Phila, actor (Underworld)/wife of Octavia Brooke

Birth

Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist (St John's Gospel)

Birth

Louis Lacombe, composer, dies at 65

Death

Maria J Small-Gartmann, actress, dies at 60

Death