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Historical Event(s)
– Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
– Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
– Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the “whites-only” car of a train; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
– Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
– Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
– The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
– Opening ceremonies for the World’s Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
– The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
– William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
– premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.
Who Were Born On ?
– Maria Diaz Cortes, Spanish supercentarian (d. 2009)
– Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
– Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966)
– Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Australian Engineer (d. 1984)
– Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
– Mary Pickford, Canadian actress (d. 1979)
– Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (d. 1969)
– Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film producer (d. 1978)
– Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
– Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 1978)