Person report

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

★30 Apr 1894
A crowd of workers unemployed due to the Panic of 1893 conducted the first significant popular protest march on Washington, D.C.

★28 Feb 1904
The most successful football club in Portugal, S.L. Benfica, was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa.

★31 Aug 1907
Russia and the United Kingdom signed the Anglo-Russian Convention, defining their respective spheres of interest in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.

★13 Oct 1908
British suffragette Margaret Travers Symons became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she escaped from her escort into the chamber and shouted at the assembly.

★21 Oct 1910
HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.

★21 May 1911
Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero signed the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to end the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.

★04 Jun 1913
Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured when she was trampled by King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby.

★03 Sep 1936
The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was founded in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.

★25 Nov 1940
The de Havilland Mosquito and the Martin B-26 Marauder, two of the most successful military aircraft in World War II, both made their first flights.

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