1. New Mexico becomes the
47th state and Arizona the 48th state
of the United States.
2. Albert Berry is reported to have made the first parachute
jump from a flying airplane.
3. The Girl Scouts is founded by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia.
4. Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo
gives 3,000 cherry trees to be planted in Washington,
D.C., to symbolize the friendship
between the two countries.
5. RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the
northern Atlantic Ocean. She sinks the
following day with the loss of 1517 lives.
6. Fenway Park in Boston,
Massachusetts opens.
7. Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent austenitic
stainless steel.[
8. Merck files patent applications in Germany for
synthesis of the entactogenic drug MDMA (Ecstasy), developed by Anton
Köllisch.
9. The Scoville Unit (used to measure the heat of peppers)
is devised and tested by Wilbur Scoville.
10. Casimir Funk identifies vitamins.
