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Historical Event(s)
– The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
– Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.
– A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
– Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled “Who’s to Blame?” in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
– The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
– The Mounties begin their March West.
– Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
– The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of “Villa de Juárez”.
– General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
– A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
Who Were Born On ?
– Frank Knox, American journalist and 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
– Elsa Beskow, Swedish author (d. 1953)
– Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer (d. 1922)
– Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
– Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
– Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
– Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
– Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
– Francis Dodd, British artist (d. 1949)
– Josef Lhévinne, Russian-born pianist (d. 1944)