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Historical Event(s)
– The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
– Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
– The Australian Premiers’ Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia’s capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
– The Philippine-American War begins.
– Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland’s first football club is founded.
– The St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
– New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
– A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
– The First Hague Convention is signed.
– Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
Who Were Born On ?
– Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)
– Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
– Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d. 1985)
– Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
– Michał Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)
– Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
– Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991)
– Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
– Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
– Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966)