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★13 Aug 1876
The Bayreuth Festival, now known for showcasing the stage works of Richard Wagner, was inaugurated under the direction of Wagner and his wife Cosima.

★18 Feb 1878
Competition between two merchants in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, U.S., turned into a range war when a member of one faction was murdered by the other.

★30 Sep 1882
The Vulcan Street Plant, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went on line in Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S.

★01 Mar 1896
French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium.

★27 Dec 1904
The stage play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, by Scottish author and dramatist J. M. Barrie, premiered in London.

★06 Oct 1908
Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing a crisis that permanently damaged their relations with the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia.

★11 May 1910
Glacier National Park, located in the U.S. state of Montana, was designated a national park.

★04 Mar 1918
The United States Navy suffered its largest non-combat loss of life when the collier USS Cyclops set sail from Barbados to Baltimore and was never seen again, presumably disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle.

★10 Apr 1919
Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata was shot to death near Ciudad Ayala, Morelos.

★29 Aug 1930
The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern.

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