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★09 Jul 1877
The inaugural Wimbledon Championship, the world's oldest tennis tournament, began.

★11 May 1880
A land dispute between the Southern Pacific Railroad and settlers in Hanford, California, turned deadly when a gun battle broke out, leaving seven dead.

★15 Oct 1888
George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, received a letter allegedly from Jack the Ripper.

★07 Mar 1900
The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver.

★16 Jun 1904
Irish author James Joyce began his relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses.

★31 Dec 1907
Times Square in New York City held its first New Year's Eve celebrations with its "ball drop" event.

★31 Oct 1913
Public transportation workers in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., went on strike, shutting down mass transit in the city and sparking riots when strikebreakers attempted to restart services.

★03 Feb 1918
At 11,675 feet long, the Twin Peaks Tunnel opened in San Francisco as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at the time.

★11 Nov 1918
Józef Piłsudski was appointed Commander in Chief of Polish forces by the Regency Council and was entrusted with creating a national government for the newly independent country.

★14 Sep 1927
In a freak automobile accident, dancer Isadora Duncan died of a broken neck in Nice, France, after her scarf was caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger.

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