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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.
– 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).
– John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
– The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
– Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
– Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher, and political theorist (d. 1937)
– Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985)
– Alice Cullen, Scottish politician (d. 1969)
– Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
– Al Dubin, American lyricist (d. 1945)
– Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
– Virginia Rappe, American actress (d. 1921)
– Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973)
– Fritz Todt, Nazi official (d. 1942)