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Historical Event(s)
– The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
– Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
– The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
– The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
– In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
– The first public performance of the Dominican Republic’s national anthem, Himno Nacional.
– The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
– First meeting of the Boys’ Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
– American Old West: Self-described “Black Bart the poet” gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
– The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author (d. 1957)
– Archibald Wavell, British general (d. 1950)
– José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
– Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (d. 1974)
– Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)
– Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, “The Red Archduchess” (d. 1963)
– Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (d. 1968)
– Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
– Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)