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Historical Event(s)
– Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
– Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
– The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
– 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.
– History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
– John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
– France annexes Tahiti.
– 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.
– The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan’s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
– Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985)
– José P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
– George Adamski, Polish-American author and ufologist (d. 1965)
– Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969)
– Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (d. 1948)
– Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World’s oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
– Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972)
– David Townsend, Art Director (d. 1935)
– Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)