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Historical Event(s)
– William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
– The Cripple Creek miner’s strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
– Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
– Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
– Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
– The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
– The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
– 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 Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
– Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.
Who Were Born On ?
– Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)
– Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
– King Vidor, American film director (d. 1982)
– Ethel Grandin, silent film actress (d. 1988)
– Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
– Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
– Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
– Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976)
– Boris Furlan, Slovenian legal theorist and politician (d. 1957)
– Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (d. 1978)