Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)

Birth

Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse and Gaston)

Birth

William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)

Birth

Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)

Birth

Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia

Event

SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor

Event

Wilhelm B”lsche, writer

Birth

Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65

Death

Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 35

Death

Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)

Birth

Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends

Event

Ernst Barlach, writer

Birth

Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins

Event

King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25

Event

Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)

Birth

Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)

Birth

Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)

Birth

Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill

Event

1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG

Event

Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education

Event

British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die

Event

Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer

Birth

Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres

Event

Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust

Event

Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)

Birth