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Historical Event(s)
– Britain’s first electric trams run in east London.
– Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
– More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
– War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
– The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
– Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
– The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
– The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
– University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
– Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882
Who Were Born On ?
– Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist (d. 1958)
– Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
– Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician and nationalist (d. 1963)
– Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)
– Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
– Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (d. 1927)
– Red Ames, American baseball player (d. 1936)
– William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
– Thomas H. Ince, American movie actor, director, producer (d. 1924)
– Andy Coakley, American baseball player and coach (d. 1963)