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Historical Event(s)
– The Tootsie Roll is invented.
– Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
– Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
– In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
– Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
– William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
– Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
– Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
– A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
– The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Who Were Born On ?
– Péter Veres, Hungarian writer and politician (d. 1970)
– Alf Hall, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
– Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
– Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran, and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
– A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
– Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
– Antonin Artaud, French playwright (d. 1948)
– Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)
– E. Beatrice Riley, Australian supercentenarian (d. 2009)
– Chiyono Hasegawa, a Japanese supercentenarian. (d. 2011)