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Historical Event(s)
– Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
– Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
– In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
– The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
– 3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.
– The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
– Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
– Opening ceremonies for the World’s Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
– The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bessie Coleman, American pioneer aviator (d. 1926)
– James Van Fleet, American military officer (d. 1992)
– Andy Clyde, American actor (d. 1967)
– József Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975)
– Basil Rathbone, English actor (d. 1967)
– Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
– Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)
– Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951)
– Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (d. 1946)
– J. Paul Getty, American oil tycoon (d. 1976)