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Historical Event(s)
– The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
– The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
– Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
– The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
– Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
– The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
– Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
– Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
– The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
– Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and dramatist (d. 1937)
– Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1945)
– Karin Molander, Swedish actress (d. 1978)
– Charles Darrow, American board game creator (Monopoly) (d. 1967)
– Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
– Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)
– Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
– Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
– Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
– Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)