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Historical Event(s)
– Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.
– The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
– Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
– An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
– In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
– First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
– France annexes Tahiti.
– First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
– Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
Who Were Born On ?
– Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
– Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
– Ernie Quigley, Canadian-born American sports official (d. 1960)
– Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
– Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
– Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and politician (d. 1964)
– Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
– Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)
– Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (d. 1952)
– Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children’s book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (d. 1939)