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Historical Event(s)
– Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
– Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay – the United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
– Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
– The Hundred Days’ Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905.
– U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
– Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
– Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days’ Reform in China.
– Ossian Everett Mills founds Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in Boston, Massachusetts.
– The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
– France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles E. Pont, American artist (d. 1971)
– Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People’s Republic of China (d. 1976)
– Henry Luce, American publisher (d. 1967)
– Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (d. 1980)
– Armand Hammer, American businessman and physician (d. 1990)
– Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
– Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
– Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
– Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
– Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982)