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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 legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
– Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
– President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
– Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
– President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
– Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
– In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
Who Were Born On ?
– Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
– Wayne King, American musician and orchestra leader (d. 1985)
– Claude Choules, One of two surviving British veterans of World War I
– Gino Cervi, Italian actor (d. 1974)
– Sukarno, First President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
– Lena Baker, American murderer (d. 1945)
– Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)
– Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
– Arleigh Burke, American admiral (d. 1996)
– Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)