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Historical Event(s)
– L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
– The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
– The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
– The Football Association legalizes professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association.
– Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
– Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.
– Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and “Father of Manitoba”, Louis Riel is executed for treason.
– First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas (United States).
– Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
– Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India.
Who Were Born On ?
– Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
– Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
– Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
– Hedda Hopper, American actress and gossip columnist (d. 1966)
– Andrzej Gawroński, Polish scholar (d. 1927)
– Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
– Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964)
– D. H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
– Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
– Roman Ungern von Sternberg, famous White Russian warlord (d.1921)