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Historical Event(s)
– The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic.
– New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
– Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
– Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners’ strike.
– The first ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by Comte Jules-Albert de Dion.
– The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
– The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
– More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
– Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
– Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
Who Were Born On ?
– John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)
– Meher Baba, Indian spiritual figure (d. 1969)
– Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953)
– Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 13th President of Portugal (d. 1964)
– Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
– Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
– Albert Facey, Australian writer (d. 1982)
– Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979)
– Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
– Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (d. 1964)