11th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Jacobus wins in 2:42«

Event

Charles Winninger, Athens Wisc, actor (Charlie Farrell Show)

Birth

Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 and 7-3 v England XI in 4 hours

Event

Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], jazz singer/silent actor (Mamie, Swanee)

Birth

Racetrack betting becomes legal in NY state

Event

Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudes/portraits)

Birth

Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67

Death

Norma Talmadge, NY, actress (Sign on Door, Camille)

Birth

Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus)

Birth

Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player

Event

Dorothea Lange, US documentary photographer

Birth

Paul Lukas, Budapest Hungary, actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx)

Birth

Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)

Event

1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY

Event

Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned

Event

SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities

Event

32nd Belmont: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32

Event

Gerard Bertouille, composer

Birth

Ernst Bacon, composer

Birth

Otto E Neugebauer, Austrian/US math historian

Birth

Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal

Birth

British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa

Event

Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" (BG)

Event

Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn)

Birth

Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies

Death