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Historical Event(s)
– The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
– Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
– The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
– The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
– In Milan in Italy inaugurated the first central European electricity power station.
– The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
– First meeting of the Boys’ Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
– American Old West: Self-described “Black Bart the poet” gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
– The first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army are formed: The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment.
– The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950)
– Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (d. 1969)
– Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (d. 1930)
– Agustín Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist and composer (d. 1944)
– Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (d. 1962)
– Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
– Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945)
– Marie Laurencin, French painter (d. 1956)
– Manolis Kalomiris, Greek classical composer (d. 1962)
– Hugo Bergmann, German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (d. 1975)