Whites win right to vote in South Africa 

NY Yankee Jack Chesbros 1st of 41 wins this year 

Erwin Harvey becomes 1st Cleveland ballplayer (Cleveland Bronchos) to have six hits in one game 

Erve Beck hits American Leagues 1st home run 

New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee) 

In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit) 

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and pioneer in the development of radio, is born 

Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer who invented the centigrade thermometer, dies