L D Swamikannu publishes Manual of Indian Chronology in Bombay 

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls 

Chalmers Auto Company offers a new car to each leagues batting champ 

Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South 

Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine 

55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa 

US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis 

A pedestrian tunnel was opened beneath the Thames in London, UK, linking Wapping with Rotherhithe 

English explorer Henry Hudson set off from Amsterdam, on behalf of the Dutch East India Company, in search of the North West Passage