Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director (Youth)

Birth

Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies

Death

John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg; many die

Event

Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69

Death

Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm

Event

Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms

Event

Nicolaas van Meeteren, Cura‡ao, folklorist

Birth

Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida

Event

M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school

Event

Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis

Event

Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)

Birth

Silas Noble and JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine

Event

Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin

Event

Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags

Event

Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (NYC)

Event

U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)

Event

Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star

Birth

Fyodor Akimenko, composer

Birth

1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Event

International Association (minor baseball league) organizes

Event

Pedro Mu¤oz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)

Birth

Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)

Birth

Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)

Birth

David McKinley Williams, composer

Birth

Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)

Birth