Historical Events
Event of Interest
Topsy the elephant is electrocuted by her owners at Luna Park, Coney Island and filmed by Edison Manufacturing movie company
Thomas Edison
Famous Birthdays
- Joris Diels, Flemish actor and director (It's a Cruel World, Haagsche Comedy), born in Antwerpen, Belgium (d. 1992)
Famous Deaths
- Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter, dies at 49
- Gulstan Ropert, French Roman Catholic prelate, dies at 63
- Topsy the elephant (b. circa 1875)
- W H M "Dicky" Richards, cricketer (score 4 & 0 in Test for S Af), dies