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Historical Event(s)
– The Fabian Society is founded in London.
– The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
– Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
– Arrival at Plymouth of Tawhiao, King of Maoris, to claim protection of Queen Victoria
– Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
– The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
– The United Kingdom ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.citation needed date=October 2011
– The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
– Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
– The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
Who Were Born On ?
– Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
– Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1952)
– Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (d. 1951)
– Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1951)
– Eugène Tisserant, French Cardinal and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (d. 1972)
– Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
– Major Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
– Jimmy Conlin, American actor d. 1962
– Norman Thomas, American political figure (d. 1968)
– Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor (d. 1951)