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Historical Event(s)
– The Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
– Henrik Ibsen’s play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
– Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
– Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death.
– A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
– Women’s suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
– Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
– Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
– First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Police officers is killed in battle by an estimated 3,000 Ndebele on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
– Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
– Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964)
– Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (d. 1980)
– Princess Maud of Fife (d. 1945)
– Eugène Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962)
– Roy O. Disney, American co-founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
– George Llewelyn-Davies, English Peter Pan character model (d. 1915)
– Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (d. 1985)
– Hermann Lux, German footballer (d. 1962)