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Historical Event(s)
– Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
– James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
– Chicago ‘L’begins operation
– Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
– Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
– 3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.
– The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage.
– Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Maria Diaz Cortes, Spanish supercentarian (d. 2009)
– Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (d. 1959)
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (d. 1950)
– Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Australian Engineer (d. 1984)
– Ferde Grofé, American composer (d. 1972)
– Jacob Viner, Canadian economist (d. 1970)
– Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (d. 1970)
– Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (d. 1971)
– Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)
– Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)