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Historical Event(s)
– Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’— his punched card calculator.
– Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
– Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.
– President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
– Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, which gives Italy control over Eritrea.
– The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
– 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.
– Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
– Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
– Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (d. 1952)
– Harry Nyquist, important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)
– Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
– K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and Hindu nationalism advocate (d. 1940)
– Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)
– Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
– Louise Mountbatten, German-born consort of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1965)
– Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
– Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (d. 1971)