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Historical Event(s)
– Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
– Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.
– The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
– A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
– Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled “Who’s to Blame?” in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
– The Mounties begin their March West.
– Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
– Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
– The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
– A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
Who Were Born On ?
– Fritz Hart, English-born composer (d. 1949)
– Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
– Harry Houdini, (Erik Weisz), Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
– Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
– Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
– Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
– Francis Dodd, British artist (d. 1949)
– William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
– Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (d. 1944)