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Historical Event(s)
– President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
– The Yngsjö murder occurs in Yngsjö, Sweden and Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
– The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
– Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
– Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
– The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
– North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
– The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
– Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
– Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Bickford, American film actor (d. 1967)
– Bhante Dharmawara, Cambodian monk and supercentenarian (d. 1999)
– John Gilbert Winant, American politician (d. 1947)
– Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (d. 1985)
– Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945)
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
– Francis Cardinal Spellman, American religious leader (d. 1967)
– Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer (d. 1977)
– Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (d. 1971)