want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy (the cowboys have been terrorizing the area's Hispanos, and Baca is working against them). Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915) returns as President of Mexico, an office he will hold until 1911. December 4 – Reformers in Korea who admire the Meiji Restoration in Japan stage the Gapsin Coup, with Japan's help. China intervenes to rescue the king and help suppress the rebels. December 6 – The Washington Monument is completed in Washington, D.C., becoming the tallest structure in the world at this date. December 10 The Third Reform Act widens the adult male electorate in the United Kingdom to around 60%. Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is first published, in London. December 16 – The World Cotton Centennial world's fair opens in New Orleans. Date unknown The first Christian missionary arrives in Korea. Parliamentarism is introduced in Norway. Police training schools are established in every prefecture in Japan. The Yellow Crane Tower last burns in Wuhan. Scottish Plymouth Brethren missionary Frederick Stanley Arnot identifies the source of the Zambezi River, near Kalene Hill. The first ascent is made of Castle Mountain in the Canadian Rockies, by geologist Arthur Philemon Coleman. The Stefan–Boltzmann law is reformulated by Ludwig Boltzmann. Mexican General Manuel Mondragón creates the Mondragón rifle, the world's first automatic rifle. The water hyacinth is introduced in the United States, and quickly becomes an invasive species. An economic depression hits the United States. The Fredrika Bremer Association is founded in Sweden. Thomas Parker builds a practical production electric car in Wolverhampton (England) using his own specially designed high-capacity rechargeable batteries. Births January January 1 Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese naval officer, engineer, and politician, founder of the Nakajima Aircraft Company (d. 1949) Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Greek politician, 2-time prime minister of Greece (d. 1970) January 2 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (d. 1973) January 12 – Texas Guinan, American vaudeville performer (d. 1933) January 20 – Charles W. Whittlesey, United States Army officer, commander of the Lost Battalion in World War I (d. 1921) January 21 – Roger Nash Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981) January 23 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-born American race car driver (d. 1956) January 24 – Thomas Blamey, Australian field marshal (d. 1951) January 26 Gheorghe Avramescu, Romanian general (d. 1945) Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer, adventurer, and naturalist (d. 1960) January 28 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss