The first-ever cricket County Championship started, finishing with Yorkshire beating Gloucestershire.
Source
One hundred and forty thousand miners went on strike in Pennsylvania.
Revolutionary War soldiers formed the Society of St. Tammany.
Juan María Fernández y Krohn tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
The first confirmed trip to the North Pole was carried out by the Norge, a semi-rigid Italian-built airship.
The first-ever quadraphonic concert was held.
