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Historical Event(s)
– The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
– The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
– The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
– In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional Association Football league, is founded.
– The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
– George Edward Gouraud records Handel’s Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
– 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.
– The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
– In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
– The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
– Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
– Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
– Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, English, eccentric first wife of American poet, T.S. Eliot (d. 1947)
– Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
– Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer (d. 1963)
– Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
– Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
– Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
– Joyce Cary, Irish author (d. 1957)