Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Pesme)

Birth

Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest/songwriter (Under the Snow)

Birth

Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment

Event

Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)

Event

Lord Berners, [Gerald Tyrwhitt], England, composer (1st Childhood)

Birth

Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer

Birth

Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG)

Event

Vladimir Ambros, composer

Birth

Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor/playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67

Death

Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief

Event

Frederic Mar‚s, Spanish sculptor

Birth

Arthur Benjamin, Sydney Australia, composer (Jamaican Rumba)

Birth

William March, [Campbell], US, writer (Company K)

Birth

Rafael N£¤ez, president (Colombia)/writer (La fonolgia Moderna), dies

Death

John G Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM (C) (1957-63)

Birth

Booker T Washington delivera "Atlanta Compromise" address

Event

D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor

Event

Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies

Death

Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of NYC," premieres in NYC

Event

John Mens, writer (People Without Money)

Birth

Pablo Sorozabal Marialcurrena, composer

Birth

Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan

Event

Harold Clurman, producer/director (Deadline at Dawn)

Birth

Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67

Death

Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer, dies at 79

Death