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Historical Event(s)
– 465 mm of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.
– In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world’s largest snowflakes are reported, 15 in wide and 8 in thick.
– Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
– Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
– Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London.
– Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
– The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation’s first national park, Banff National Park.
– The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
– The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
– Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
Who Were Born On ?
– Géza Csáth, Hungarian writer (d. 1919)
– Alan Gordon Cunningham, British army officer (d. 1983)
– Bruno Frank, German author (d. 1945)
– Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
– Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
– Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
– Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
– Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, former Republic of China president (d. 1975)
– Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist, philanthropist, scientific research patron (d. 1975)
– Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)