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Historical Event(s)
– Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
– 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.
– Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
– The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
– The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
– Premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
– The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
– The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
– The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
Who Were Born On ?
– Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
– Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American historian and journalist (d. 1944)
– Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
– Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander (d. 1945)
– Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
– Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (d. 1941)
– Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916)
– Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
– Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (d. 1973)
– Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)