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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.
– A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
– Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London.
– The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
– Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
– The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
– Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
– Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
Who Were Born On ?
– John van Melle, South African writer (d. 1953)
– Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
– Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)
– Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
– Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
– Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1938)
– Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born American composer (d. 1951)
– Tommy Ward, South African cricketer (d. 1936)
– Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
– Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)