fought in Montana the next year). November 16 – Battle of Gundat: Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV defeats another Egyptian army. November 26 – The Times newspaper in London reveals that Isma'il Pasha has sold Egypt's 44% share in the Suez Canal to Britain, in a deal secured by Benjamin Disraeli, without the prior sanction of the British Parliament. November 29 – Dōshisha English School, predecessor of Dōshisha University, is founded in Kyōto, Japan. December 4 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Spain. December 6 German emigrant ship SS Deutschland runs aground off the English coast, resulting in the death of 157 passengers and crew. A firedamp explosion at Swaithe Main Colliery in the South Yorkshire Coalfield of England results in the death of 143 miners. December 9 – The Massachusetts Rifle Association, America's oldest active gun club, is formed. December 20 – The ICRM is renamed the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). December 25 – The first Edinburgh derby in Association football is played: Heart of Midlothian F.C. wins 1–0 against Hibernian F.C. Date unknown Convent Scandal: During the winter in Montreal, typhoid fever strikes at a convent school. The corpses of the victims are filched by body-snatchers before relatives arrive from America, causing much furor. Eventually the Anatomy Act of Quebec is changed over it. At Wimbledon, Henry Cavendish Jones convinces the All England Croquet Club to replace a croquet lawn with a lawn tennis court. The opening of Flushing High School, the oldest public high school in New York City. World's first railway electrification with trams operated on Miller's line at Sestroretsk near Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire experimentally by Fyodor Pirotsky. Births January–February January 3 – Alexandros Diomidis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1950) January 5 – J. Stuart Blackton, American film producer (d. 1941) January 6 – Leslie Green, English architect (d. 1908) January 7 – Thomas Hicks, English-born American marathon runner (d. 1952) January 9 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor, socialite (d. 1942) January 11 – Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (d. 1956) January 14 Felix Hamrin, 22nd Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1937) Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian philosopher and musician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1965) January 15 Thomas Burke, American sprinter (d. 1929) King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1953) January 22 – D. W. Griffith, American film director (The