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Historical Event(s)
– Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
– In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
Who Were Born On ?
– Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
– Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Speaker of Lok Sabha (d. 1978)
– Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
– Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
– Virginia Rappe, American actress (d. 1921)
– Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (d. 1966)
– Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican independence advocate (d. 1965)
– Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
– Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (d. 1949)