First International Womans Day 

Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers 

Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY 

First performance of Jean Sibelius 2nd Symphony 

NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee) 

John Ericsson, Swedish-born US inventor of the screw propeller, dies 

Otto Hahn, German physicist and chemist, is born 

Abraham Darby, English ironmaster, the first to use coke for smelting iron, dies