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Historical Event(s)
– A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
– Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
– 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
– 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 ?
– Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953)
– Eugène Tisserant, French Cardinal and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (d. 1972)
– Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972)
– Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
– Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
– Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
– Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
– Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
– James Flecker, English writer (d. 1915)
– Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967)