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Historical Event(s)
– The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
– In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world’s largest snowflakes are reported, 15 in wide and 8 in thick.
– The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
– 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.
– Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’– his punched card calculator.
– Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
– Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
Who Were Born On ?
– Juan Gris, Spanish artist (d. 1927)
– Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
– Eddie Collins, American baseball player (d. 1951)
– Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954)
– Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1968)
– Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
– Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)
– Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)
– Roy William Neill, Irish director (d. 1946)
– Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958)