The Cherry Mine disaster in Illinois killed 259 miners in a coal mine fire.
French aviator Eugène Lefebvre tragically died in an airplane crash, making this day the first-ever aviation fatality.
The first installment of concrete was poured into the Panama Canal.
American steamship S. S. Arapahoe became the first to use the signal 'SOS' off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA.
28-year-old chemist Eugène Schueller founded a beauty company, which would later be named L'Oreal.
