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Historical Event(s)
– The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
– U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
– The Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
– Henrik Ibsen’s play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
– Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
– The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
– Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
– A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
– The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
– Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
Who Were Born On ?
– Sir Cedric Hardwicke, British actor (d. 1964)
– Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
– Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
– Max Brand, American author and war correspondent (d. 1944)
– Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
– Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1978)
– Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, British politician (d. 1957)
– Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (d. 1945)
– Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
– Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (d. 1972)