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Historical Event(s)
– Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
– The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
– Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
– A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
– Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
– Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
– The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD).
– Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
– Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
– A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jaromir Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967)
– Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
– Gerty Cori, Austrian biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1957)
– Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
– Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
– Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
– Olga Grey, Hungarian-born American silent actress (d. 1973)
– Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
– Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d. 1974)
– Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)