Turkish troops captured a band of 300 Macedonian Bulgarian invaders at Nevrokop (now Gotse Delchev in Bulgaria).
A law went into effect in the U.S. state of South Carolina prohibiting the employment of any child to work in the state's cotton mills until that child was at least 10 years old.
King Edward VII of Britain was received by President Emile Loubet of France.
The sinking of the U.S. steamer Saginaw killed 15 people— eight passengers and seven crew— when it collided with another American ship, the Hamilton, in a dense fog off of Hog Island, Virginia.
Born:James Beard, American chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality, in Portland, Oregon (died 1985)
Britain's House of Commons voted in favor of guaranteeing the funds for a $175 million loan to protect Britain's colonies in South Africa at the Transvaal.
The Ottoman government accused the Bulgarian government of complicity in supporting the invasion of Ottoman Macedonia.
Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Lansdowne (Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice) declared in Commons that Britain would resist any attempt by a foreign power to establish a naval base or fortress in the Persian Gulf.
The U.S. fishing schooner Gloriana sank, killing 15 of the 18 crew aboard, off of Newfoundland.
The New York City Police Department discovered a bomb on board the British liner RMS Umbria, which was scheduled to sail from New York to Liverpool at noon, after having been alerted by an anonymous letter sent to NYPD headquarters. According to the letter, the New York Mafia had originally planned to put the bomb on the White Star liner RMS Oceanic but changed their plans because of the number of women and children booked for that liner. The crate contained 100 pounds (45kg) of dynamite attached to a crude timed fuse. Police would trace the bomb back to a Chicago lodging house.
The first article identifying what would later be known as Crohn's disease, by Polish surgeon Antoni Leśniowski, was published in the weekly medical newspaper Medycyna.
The U.S. state of California forcibly removed several hundred Cupeño (Kuupangaxwichem) Native American Indian tribe from their homeland in the area around Warner Springs in San Diego County, California, with Bureau of Indian Affairs agents and 44 armed teamsters
An 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific archipelago of the New Hebrides, now Vanuatu.
The towns of New Hampshire held town councils of their residents across the U.S. state to vote on the question for licensing the sale of liquor by taverns, with all voting in favor of a licensing requirement, and large majority voting to not grant licenses once the requirement became law.
The Republican Executive Committee for the predominantly-Democrat U.S. state of Alabama voted to admit African-Americans for participation in Republican Party councils.
The U.S. state of Pennsylvania enacted the "press muzzler" bill as Governor Pennypacker signed into law a bill to restrict the operation of the news media.
Died:Apolinario Mabini, 38, Filipino politician and the country's first prime minister (cholera)
U.S. President Roosevelt announced the appointment of three American arbitrators for foreign claims against Venezuela as part of the Washington protocols, with Frank C. Partridge handling British and Dutch claims, General Henry M. Duffield for German claims, and Jackson H. Ralston for Italian claims.
Born:Cool Papa Bell (James Thomas Bell), African-American baseball player who set the record for most games played (1,202) in the Negro Major Leagues, and inductee to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974; in Starkville, Mississippi (d. 1991)
The British House of Commons passed a resolution in favor of allowing the British government to negotiate with the other European nations to resolve the matter of the slave rule by Belgium's King Leopold II of the Congo Free State.
Born:Miklós László (pen name for Nicholaus Leitner), Hungarian-born American playwright and screenwriter known for his romantic comedy play Parfumerie (1937), adapted to the musicalShe Loves Me (1937) and the films The Shop Around the Corner (1940), In the Good Old Summertime (1949) and You've Got Mail (1998); in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d.1973)
Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, in his capacity as King Ferenc Jozsef of Hungary, authorized Károly Khuen-Héderváry to form a new government to replace Kálmán Széll as Prime Minister of Hungary.
The Paris–Madrid race for automobiles started from the gardens of Versailles. The race became notable for the number of accidents, including at least eight rumored fatalities. It was cancelled when the competitors reached Bordeaux.
On departure from Antwerp, carrying emigrants to Canada, the British passenger-cargo ship Huddersfield collided with the Norwegian steamer SS Uto in the River Scheldt. All 22 passengers were drowned as the 17 crew of the Huddersfield safely evacuated to the Uto.
The Australian passenger-cargo ship SS Oakland foundered in stormy weather in the Tasman Sea near Cabbage Tree Island off New South Wales, with 11 of the 18 people on board drowning. The remaining seven were picked up by the steamer SS Bellinger.
Died:Marcel Renault, 31, French racing driver and industrialist, of injuries incurred by crashing into a tree while competing in the Paris-Madrid race.
The German company Telefunken was founded in Berlin as a joint venture of the electrical engineering company Siemens & Halske (now part of Siemens) and the electrical engineering company AEG ( Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft) for the purpose of developing a wireless communication using patents already granted and research into better equipment as precursor to radio broadcasting and receiving.
In the U.S., Western Michigan University was established Western Michigan Normal School in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Initially a college for training of teachers, it was one of the eight research universities in the state more than 120 years later.
USS Wisconsin became the first battleship to enter the U.S. Navy's Pearl Harbor base, after three years of dredging the harbor and enlarging the channel to accommodate larger ships. After sailing into the harbor, USS Wisconsin entered refueled at the new coaling station and replenished its supply of fresh water.
The Connecticut State Police, one of the first statewide police agencies in the United States, was founded with five officers, paid three dollars per day, to enforce the state's liquor and vice laws.
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Bob Hope, English-born U.S. comedian and actor; as Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, Kent (died 2003)
Charles Jonnart, France's Governor-General of Algeria, was shot at while he was making an inspection tour of Algeria's border with Morocco, near the Moroccan city of Figuig. The assassination attempt would be followed by France's conquest of Morocco. Eight days after the incident, French artillery began the bombardment of Figuig on June 9, 1903, and the conflict escalated.
↑"The Cupeños' own Trail of Tears". Los Angeles Times. March 17, 2012. Retrieved 2022-12-23. The history of the Pala Band of Mission Indians begins with an event so traumatic that it is known as the Cupeño Trail of Tears.
↑Foreman, J. (1906). The Philippine Islands, A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
↑O.K. Praveen (March 2018). "Sree Narayana Guru and S.N.D.P Yogam". Research Guru. 11 (4).