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Historical Event(s)
– The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
– The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
– The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
– The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
– 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).
– History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
– John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
– The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
– Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
– The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan’s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
Who Were Born On ?
– Zora Neale Hurston, African-American writer (d. 1960)
– Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
– Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Speaker of Lok Sabha (d. 1978)
– José P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
– Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921)
– Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974)
– Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d. 1977)
– Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
– Irene Rich, American actress (d. 1988)
– Erwin Rommel, German field marshal, “The Desert Fox” (d. 1944)