Historical Events
- 26th Belmont: W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12
Famous Deaths
- Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, German musician and composer, dies at 59
- Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
- William Grant Stairs, Canadian-British explorer and adventurer who had a leading role in two of the most controversial expeditions in the history of the colonisation of Africa, dies at 28