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Historical Event(s)
– The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
– Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
– SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
– The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
– Pope Leo XIII defends workers’ rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
– The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
– John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
– Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
– Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
– The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan’s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
Who Were Born On ?
– Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)
– Gertrud Wolle, German actress (d. 1952)
– George Adamski, Polish-American author and ufologist (d. 1965)
– Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
– Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (d. 1955)
– Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973)
– Averell Harriman, American businessman (d. 1986)
– Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (d. 1941)
– Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)
– John William McCormack, American politician (d. 1980)