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Historical Event(s)
– The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
– In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
– 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.
– 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.
– Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’– his punched card calculator.
– The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation’s first national park, Banff National Park.
– Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
– Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
Who Were Born On ?
– Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
– Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
– Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
– Kurt Schwitters, German painter and writer (d. 1948)
– Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
– István Kühár, Slovene (Prekmurian) writer and politician (d. 1922)
– Roy William Neill, Irish director (d. 1946)
– Shizuichi Tanaka, Japanese general (d. 1945)
– Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (d. 1969)
– Marianne Moore, American poet (d. 1972)