Stephen Crane, US, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage)

Birth

King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)

Event

Dutch govt of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns

Event

Roger Quilter, British composer

Birth

Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)

Birth

Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)

Event

Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)

Birth

Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)

Birth

Grantland Rice, sportswriter (NY Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37)

Birth

Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director (Rotterdamsche Bank)

Birth

Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)

Birth

Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris), dies at 22

Death

Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei

Event

Hermann Broch, Austria, novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment)

Birth

Max Trapp, composer

Birth

Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959)

Birth

North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states

Event

James Barton, NJ, Broadway actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh)

Birth

Dirk Vollenhoven, Dutch composer/philosopher

Birth

John A Neuhuys, painter, dies at 59

Death

Alexander Alekhine, Russia, world chess champion (1927-35, 37-46)

Birth

Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris

Event

Aleksandr III A Romanov, czar of Russia (1881-94), dies at 49

Death

Aleksander Zarzycki, composer, dies at 61

Death

1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag

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