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Historical Event(s)
– U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
– Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
– The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
– The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
– Mohandas Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience.
– 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.
– The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet’s commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
– The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961)
– Russel Crouse, American playwright (d. 1966)
– Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)
– Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980)
– Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
– Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (d. 1960)
– Leroy Shield, American film score and radio composer (Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy) (d. 1962)
– Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
– Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940)