Person report

★04 May 1886
An unknown assailant threw a bomb into a crowd of police, turning a peaceful labor rally in Chicago into the Haymarket massacre, which resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four bystanders.

★06 Aug 1890
At Auburn Prison in the U.S. state of New York, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed by electric chair.

★29 Jan 1891
Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ascended the throne.

★17 Mar 1891
The transatlantic steamship Utopia accidentally collided with the battleship HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar, sinking in less than twenty minutes and killing 562.

★26 Oct 1892
Ida B. Wells began to publish her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2020.

★07 May 1895
Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his radio receiver, refined as a lightning detector, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.

★29 May 1900
N'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil.

★17 May 1902
The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.

★30 Dec 1902
The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a new Farthest South point in Antarctica.

★19 Feb 1910
Old Trafford, a football stadium in Greater Manchester, England, hosted its first match between Manchester United and Liverpool.

Historical data by Wikipedia Contributors CC BY-SA 3.0.