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Historical Event(s)
– Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
– Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
– The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
– Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
– Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
– At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
– Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
– The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
– Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia.
Who Were Born On ?
– Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
– Agnes Macphail, first female member of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 1954)
– Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
– Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
– Stan Laurel, British actor and comedian (d. 1965)
– Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, British fighter ace (d. 1918)
– Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
– Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
– Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)
– El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)