The territorial legislature of Alaska passed a bill granting women the right to vote, years ahead of the federal 19th Amendment that would enfranchise American women nationally.

Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up a bus seat would galvanize the American civil rights movement, is born in Tuskegee, Alabama.

The Treaty of Bucharest's follow-up, the Treaty of Craiova, settles Bulgarian-Romanian border disputes after the Second Balkan War reshapes southeastern Europe.