A meteorite landed on Leicestershire, UK it weighed about 100lbs 

The first air raid on Britain was made when a German airplane dropped a bomb on the grounds of a rectory in Dover 

Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lottas Fountain 

Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass) 

German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children 

William Burke who, with his partner William Hare, dug up the dead and murdered to sell the corpses for dissection, went on trial in Edinburgh