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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 heads of State

Events

• January 20 - James Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.
• January 29 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii
• March 17 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.
• April 1 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
• May 1 - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies, France.
• May 20 - First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs).
• June 16 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
• June 21 First long-distance transmission of Alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
• August 27 - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance.
• October 1 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors
• December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio
• Winter - James Naismith invents Basketball
• The Tobacco Protest occurs in Iran

Births

• January 8 - Walther Bothe, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 (d. 1957)
• February 9 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958)
• February 11 - J W Hearne English cricket player.
• February 27 - David Sarnoff, broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971)
• March 10 - Sam Jaffe, actor (d. 1984)
• March 19 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
• March 24 - John Knittel, dramatist (d. 1970)
• March 29 - Yvan Goll, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1950)
• April 2 - Max Ernst, painter (d. 1976)
• April 13 - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist.
• April 17 - George Adamski, UFO traveler
• April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer
• May 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov, writer (d. 1940)
• May 16 - Richard Tauber, tenor (d. 1948)
• May 18 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
• May 19 - Oswald Boelcke, World War I fighter ace (d. 1916)
• May 22 - Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (d. 1963)
• May 24 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar
• June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter
• June 20 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976)
• June 30 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler (d. 1953)
• September 14 - William F. Friedman, cryptanalyst
• October 24 - Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic
• November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine, 1923
• November 15 - Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (d. 1959)
• November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
• December 26 - Henry Miller, writer

Deaths

• January 5 - Emma Abbott, american opera singer
• January 21 - Calixa Lavallee, composer
• April 7 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, circus impresario
• July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, US politician.
• August 14 - Sarah Childress Polk, former First Lady of the United States.
• September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author of Oblomov.
• September 28 - Herman Melville, American novelist.
• October 6 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Nationalist leader.
• October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer.
• November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet

heads of State

• China - Guāngxu Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
• Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
• France - Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, President of France (1887-1894)
• Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
• Holy See - Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
• Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
• Norway - Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
• Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
• Russia - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
• Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
• United States - Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States (1889-1893)

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