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Historical Event(s)
– In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional Association Football league, is founded.
– The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
– Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire.
– Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
– An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London.
– The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
– George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
– In England the first six Football League matches are played.
– Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
– Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
Who Were Born On ?
– Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)
– John Foster Dulles, American politician, former United States Senator from New York, and 52nd United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)
– Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet musician (d. 1964)
– Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (d. 1925)
– Joseph ‘Squizzy’Taylor, Australian underworld figure (d. 1927)
– Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
– Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
– Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and pianist (d. 1957)
– Hamilton Fish III, American politician (d. 1991)
– Robert Moses, American public works official (d. 1981)