Germany. October–December October 4 – Texas A&M University opens for classes. October 6 – The American Library Association is founded in Philadelphia. October 26 – José María Iglesias begins his disputed presidency of Mexico. October 31 – The great 1876 Bengal cyclone strikes the coast of modern-day Bangladesh, killing 200,000. November 1 – The British Colony of New Zealand dissolves its 9 provinces and replaces them with 63 counties. November 4 – The long-awaited First Symphony of Johannes Brahms has its première at Karlsruhe, under the baton of Otto Dessoff. November 7 1876 United States presidential election: After long and heated disputes, Rutherford B. Hayes is eventually declared the winner over Samuel J. Tilden. A failed grave robbery of the Lincoln Tomb takes place on this same night. November 10 – The Centennial Exposition ends in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 23 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City, after being captured in Spain. November 25 – American Indian Wars: Dull Knife Fight – In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (the soldiers destroy all of the villagers' winter food and clothing, and then slash their ponies' throats). November 29 – Porfirio Díaz becomes President of Mexico. December – The first American edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is published by the American Publishing Company; a British edition has appeared in early June in London with the first review appearing on June 24 in a British magazine. December 2 – Chugai Economic Daily, predecessor of Nikkei Economic Daily (Nihon Keizai Shinbun), is first issued in Tokyo, Japan. December 5 – The Brooklyn Theatre fire kills at least 278, possibly more than 300. December 6 – The first cremation in the United States takes place, in a crematory built by Francis Julius LeMoyne at North Franklin Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. December 13 – New Constitution of the Ottoman Empire signed, ending Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire. December 23 – Constantinople Conference opens. December 29 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs in Ohio when a bridge collapses, leaving 92 dead. Date unknown The Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79, which will claim 30 million lives and become