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Historical Event(s)
– Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
– Funeral of Queen Victoria.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
– The Australian Army was formed.
– The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
– Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
– New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
– Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
– Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
– Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
– Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
– Muhammad Naguib, President of Egypt (d. 1984)
– Edgar Ende, German painter (d. 1965)
– Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
– Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973)
– Ruth Krauss, American author
– William Lyons, British industrialist (Jaguar cars) (d. 1985)
– Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
– Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)