Also on this day: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. (Dreyfus would be vindicated eventually.) Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, who would brcome the first naturalized U.S.
citizen to be canonized, dies in Chicago at age 67.The first center tube of the Lincoln Tunnel connecting New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River is opened to traffic.
New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shoots and wounds four youths on a Manhattan subway, claiming they were about to rob him.
Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, the last of Eastern Europe’s hard-line Communist rulers, is toppled from power in an uprising.
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