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Historical Event(s)
– Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.
– William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
– Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
– 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.
– Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
– Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent”.
– The first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
– George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
– At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
– Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
Who Were Born On ?
– Earl Thompson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
– Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)
– Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
– Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971)
– Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983)
– Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)
– Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985)
– Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980)
– Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
– William Griffith “Bill” Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)