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Historical Event(s)
– Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
– The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
– Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the king of the Zulu Nation.
– Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
– The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
– The United Kingdom ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.citation needed date=October 2011
– The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
– Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
– The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
– Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
Who Were Born On ?
– George McManus American cartoonist (d. 1954)
– Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968)
– Otto Meyerhof, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1951)
– Daniel Varujan, Armenian poet (d. 1915)
– Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
– Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
– Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
– Ogden L. Mills, American Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)
– Ida Wüst, German actress (d. 1958)
– Arch Hoxsey, pioneer aviator (d. 1910)