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Historical Event(s)
– Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
– The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
– Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
– The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
– 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.
– John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
– France annexes Tahiti.
– Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
– In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
Who Were Born On ?
– Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)
– August Froehlich, German Roman Catholic priest, member of the resistance against Nazism and martyr (d.1942)
– Alice Cullen, Scottish politician (d. 1969)
– Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)
– John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976)
– Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
– Arthur Bliss, British composer and Master of the Queen’s Music (d. 1975)
– Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (d. 1920)
– Carl Stalling, American film composer (d. 1972)
– Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)