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Historical Event(s)
– The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
– Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
– Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
– The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
– In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
– Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
– Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent”.
– The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
– Booker T. Washington delivers the “Atlanta Compromise” address.
– George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
Who Were Born On ?
– Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
– Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor and scholar of Islamic art (d. 1959)
– Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
– William Giauque, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
– Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
– Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967)
– Caroline Gordon, American writer and critic (d. 1981)
– Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
– William Griffith “Bill” Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
– Ingeborg Refling Hagen, Norwegian author and teacher (d. 1989)