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Historical Event(s)
– The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
– Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
– Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
– Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent”.
– The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
– Booker T. Washington delivers the “Atlanta Compromise” address.
– Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
– The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago’s Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
Who Were Born On ?
– Shemp Howard, American comedian (d. 1955)
– Jean Giono, French author (d. 1970)
– Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
– Malcolm Sargent, British conductor (d. 1967)
– Saul Adler FRS, Russian-born British-Israeli expert on parasitology (d. 1966)
– Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)
– Charles “Chic” Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
– Jürgen Stroop, German Nazi SS officer (d. 1952)
– Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
– Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)