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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
– Moses Fleetwood Walker became the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
– Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the king of the Zulu Nation.
– Arrival at Plymouth of Tawhiao, King of Maoris, to claim protection of Queen Victoria
– Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
– Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
– The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
– Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
Who Were Born On ?
– Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)
– Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (d. 1937)
– Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934)
– Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (d. 1964)
– Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
– Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
– Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
– Earl Derr Biggers, American author (d. 1933)
– Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
– Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)