Historical Events
- Dalai Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
Famous Birthdays
- Christian-Jaque, French film director, born in Paris (d. 1994)
- Julian W. Hill, American research chemist (developed nylon), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1996)
- Max Delbrück, German-American biologist and molecular geneticist (bacteriophage, Nobel Prize 1969), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1981)