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Historical Event(s)
– The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
– 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
– 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.
– Emily Stowe becomes the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
– Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand – Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
– Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
– Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948)
– André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)
– Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
– Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
– Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
– Joshua Lionel Cowen, American entrepreneur, creator of Lionel Trains (d. 1965)
– Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
– Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)