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Historical Event(s)
– The first successful appendectomy is performed by William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
– L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
– The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
– The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
– The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
– In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
– The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
– The Football Association legalizes professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association.
– The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
– Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
Who Were Born On ?
– Michael Considine, Australian politician (d. 1959)
– Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-born Pakistani philosopher (d. 1949)
– Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
– Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American film director (d. 1981)
– George ‘Gabby’Hayes, American actor (d. 1969)
– Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
– George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
– Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
– Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
– Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)