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Historical Event(s)
– Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
– Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
– Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
– Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
– The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
– The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD).
– Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
– The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
– Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
– Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
Who Were Born On ?
– Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
– Arthur Shields, Irish actor (d. 1970)
– Murray Leinster, American science-fiction and alternate history writer (d. 1976)
– Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
– Aspasia Manos, wife of king Alexander of Greece (d. 1972)
– André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
– Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (d. 1989)
– Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
– Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
– Carl Zuckmayer, German author and dramatist (d. 1977)