Historical Events
- Denmark adopts Mid-European time
- Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic
- South African Amateur Athletic Union is founded in Johannesburg
Famous Birthdays
- Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist ( Bose–Einstein statistics), born in Calcutta, British India (d. 1974)
- Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007)
Famous Deaths
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)