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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.
– 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.
– 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.
– The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
– 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 ?
– Raoul von Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948)
– George McManus American cartoonist (d. 1954)
– Bradbury Robinson, who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 (d. 1949)
– Max Beckmann, German artist (d. 1950)
– Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
– Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
– Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
– Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
– Ida Wüst, German actress (d. 1958)