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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– 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.
– Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.
– George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
– In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
– Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
– Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
– Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
– Baldwin Cooke, American actor d. 1953
– Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet musician (d. 1964)
– Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971)
– Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
– Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
– Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian Dawoodi Bohra leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965)
– Maxwell Anderson, American writer (d. 1959)
– Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (d. 1958)