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Historical Event(s)
– William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
– 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.
– The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
– The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
– Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent”.
– American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
– German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
– 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.
– Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
– The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
Who Were Born On ?
– Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
– Fulton J. Sheen, American bishop (d. 1979)
– Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
– Morris Kirksey, American rugby player (d. 1981)
– Juan Perón, President of Argentina (d. 1974)
– Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972)
– Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
– Ludvík Svoboda, Czech statesman (d. 1979)
– Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990)
– Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969)