President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces. July 19 – Russo-Turkish War: The first battle in the siege of Plevna is fought. July 30 – Russo-Turkish War: The second battle in the siege of Plevna is fought. July 30 – Russo-Turkish War: The Turkish army and its allies destroy the Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora and massacre the inhabitants. August 9 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Big Hole: Near Big Hole River, Montana, a small band of Nez Perce people who refuse government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army. The army loses 29 soldiers, and the Indians lose 89 warriors, in an Army victory. August 12 – American astronomer Asaph Hall discovers Deimos, the outer moon of Mars. August 18 – Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, the inner moon of Mars. September 1 – The Battle of Lovcha, third battle in the siege of Plevna, is fought. Russian forces successfully reduce the Ottoman fortress at Lovcha. September 5 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier, after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. September 22 – Treaty 7 is concluded between several mainly Blackfoot First Nations tribes and the Canadian Confederation, at the Blackfoot Crossing of the Bow River, settling the Blackfoot on Indian reserves in what will become southern Alberta. September 24 – Battle of Shiroyama in Kagoshima, Japan: The Imperial Japanese Army annihilates heavily outnumbered rebel samurai under Saigō Takamori (who is killed), ending the Satsuma Rebellion. October–December October 22 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. November 14 – Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society is premièred at the Odense Teater. November 21 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound, considered Edison's first great invention. Edison demonstrates the device for the first time on November 29. November 22 – The first college lacrosse game is played between New York University and Manhattan College. December 9 – The fourth battle of the Russo-Turkish War is fought, concluding the siege of Plevna. December 13 – Serbia restates its previous declaration of war against Turkey. December 17 – Disastrous premiere of Anton Bruckner's Third Symphony in D minor at the Vienna Philharmonic December 30 – Brahms' Symphony No. 2 premieres in Vienna. Births