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Historical Event(s)
– The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
– Britain’s first electric trams run in east London.
– The Knights of Columbus are established.
– American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
– The “Elektromote” – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
– More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
– The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
– The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
– The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
– Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882
Who Were Born On ?
– Sam Rayburn, American politician (d. 1961)
– Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
– Franklin D. Roosevelt, American politician, 44th Governor of New York, and 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
– James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
– Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)
– Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967)
– Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
– Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
– Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1965)