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Historical Event(s)
– Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
– The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
– The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
– Pope Leo XIII defends workers’ rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
– The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
– History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
– France annexes Tahiti.
– Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
– In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
– The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan’s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
Who Were Born On ?
– Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986)
– Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
– Ann Little, American actress (d. 1984)
– Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
– Victor Varconi, Hungarian film actor (d. 1976)
– Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921)
– George Adamski, Polish-American author and ufologist (d. 1965)
– Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (d. 1955)
– Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
– Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (d. 1980)