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Historical Event(s)
– Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.
– Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
– An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
– Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California
– In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
– War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
– France annexes Tahiti.
– The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation’s oldest, continuously-independent college daily in the United States.
– John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
– Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
Who Were Born On ?
– Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (d. 1932)
– Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist (d. 1943)
– Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965)
– Jeannette Rankin, American politician, feminist and pacifist (d. 1973)
– Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
– Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952)
– Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician and astronomer (d. 1919)
– Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer (d. 1958)
– Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
– Fred Beebe, American baseball player (d. 1957)