Due to a computer error, 41,000 Parisians received letters charging them with murder, extortion, and organized prostitution instead of traffic violations 

Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier 

Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0 

General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) 

Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Creeping Man (BG) 

Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later 

British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa 

John Dalton, British chemist, is born 

Ferdinand Magellan's 17 surviving crew members reached the Spanish coast aboard the Vittoria, having completed the first circumnavigation of the world