• The Paris Exposition comes to a close. (Europe)
• The marriage of Louisa Pierpont Morgan, daughter of J.P. Morgan, to
Captain Herbert Satterlee, in New York City is the social event of the
season as fifteen hundred invitations are sent out. (Northeast/US)
• The annual football contest between rivals Harvard and Yale, played at
Yale Stadium in New Haven, Connecticut, finishes with Yale on the winning end
of 28-0 score despite the hard-fought efforts of the Crimson, led by
quarterback and team captain Charles Dan Daly. Yale would go on to win that
season's Collegiate Football National Championship with a record of 12 wins and
no defeats. (Northeast/US)
• News out of Lavidia, Russia, reports the Czar to be in grave
physical condition. (Asia/Europe)
• Tragedies on the football gridiron occur in Lowell, Massachusetts, and
Chicago, Illinois. In Lowell, 18 year-old Louis Gilmore is killed during
the annual Thanksgiving Day game, while 16 year-old William Bartlett of Chicago
dies during a neighborhood contest. Both boys succumbed to injuries to the
spine. (Northeast, Midwest/US)
• The first concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra, made up of the city's
residents, is performed at the Academy of Music. (Northeast/US)
• Thirty-one exhibitors attend the first US national automobile show at New
York's Madison Square Garden. (Northeast/US)
• A constitutional convention is held in Havana, Cuba. The island nation
had been occupied by American forces since the expulsion of Spanish forces by
the US.
(Central America/Caribbean)
• Irish-born writer Oscar Wilde dies of cerebral meningitis at the Hotel
d'Alsace in Paris at age 49. Wilde was the controversial author of "The Picture
of Dorian Gray," among other works. (Europe)
• Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, is the site of a debate
over academic freedom after university president David Starr Jordan dismisses
Professor Edward A. Ross for making what Jordan considered to be radical
political statements. (Southwest/US)
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