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Historical Event(s)
– William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
– 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.
– In Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
– 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.
– Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
– Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
– Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
– The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
– 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 ?
– Joseph Rosenstock, Polish conductor (d. 1985)
– William C. Lee, American Army general (d. 1948)
– Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
– Vardis Fisher, American author (d. 1968)
– Prescott Bush, American banker, politician and member of the Bush family (d. 1972)
– Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
– Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
– Walter Koch. German astrologer (d. 1970)
– Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)
– Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)