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Historical Event(s)
– Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.
– Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
– Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
– The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
– El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
– The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
– The first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
– The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
– At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
Who Were Born On ?
– Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
– Earl Thompson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
– Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador ( d. 1940 )
– Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (d. 1943)
– Dane Rudhyar, French-US author, composer, astrologer (d. 1985)
– Christian Herter, American politician (d. 1966)
– Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
– André Frédéric Cournand, French Nobel Laureate (d. 1988)
– Walter Gieseking, French pianist (d. 1956)
– Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)