Historical Events
- 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
- The United States Coast Guard is created by merging the US Life Saving Service & the US Revenue Cutter Service
Event of Interest
US President Woodrow Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
Woodrow Wilson
Famous Deaths
- Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist and mathematician known for discovering the Umov-Poynting vector and Umov effect, dies at 68