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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.
– 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.
– Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
– 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 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 ?
– Marcel Cohen, French linguist (d. 1974)
– Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957)
– Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
– Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (d. 1971)
– Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (d. 1981)
– Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
– Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)
– Dr. Frank Laubach, American Christian missionary (d. 1970)
– Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer (d. 1953)
– Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)