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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.
– More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
– The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
– A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
– Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
– Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
– The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
– Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
– Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
Who Were Born On ?
– Marcel Cohen, French linguist (d. 1974)
– Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, film director (d. 1947)
– Molla Mallory, Norwegian-born American tennis player (d. 1959)
– Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leone politician and nationalist (d. 1964)
– Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)
– Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
– Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
– J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (d. 1951)
– William Douglas Cook, New Zealander horticulturalist (d. 1967)
– Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)