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Historical Event(s)
– The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
– The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
– Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
– The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
– With the passage of the Lei Áurea (“Golden Law”), Brazil abolishes slavery.
– George Edward Gouraud records Handel’s Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
– The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
– Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
– Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
– In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
Who Were Born On ?
– John Garand, American inventor (d. 1974)
– Chester Conklin, American comedian and actor (d. 1971)
– Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
– José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928)
– Heinz Guderian, German general (d. 1954)
– Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964)
– Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
– Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian Dawoodi Bohra leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965)
– Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
– Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)