five times, then shot himself. The motive, police learned later, was that Goldsborough imagined that a character in the book was based on his sister. Phillips died the next day, after telling doctors, "I can fight two wounds, but not six." Chemist Marie Curie failed in her bid to become the first woman member of France's Académie des Sciences by two votes. From the 58 members, Curie received 28 votes, and Edouard Branly 29. On the next vote, Branly received the majority of 30, and Curie never again stood for membership. Born: Ralph Fults, longest surviving associate of Bonnie and Clyde; in McKinney, Texas (d. 1993) January 24, 1911 (Tuesday) Kotoku Shusui and ten other persons were hanged, six days after being convicted of conspiracy to assassinate Hirohito, the Crown Prince of Japan. Born: C. L. Moore (Catherine Lucille Moore), one of the first women science fiction authors; in Indianapolis. (d. 1987) January 25, 1911 (Wednesday) An army of 1,600 mercenaries invaded Honduras and battled at La Ceiba against the Honduran Army. Successful, the forces of Manuel Bonilla then marched to the capital, Tegucigalpa, which would fall weeks later. U.S. troops were sent to the Rio Grande to keep Mexican insurgents from crossing into the United States. John P. White of Iowa was elected as the new President of the United Mine Workers of America. Born: Kurt Maetzig, German film director; in Berlin (d. 2012) January 26, 1911 (Thursday) Glenn H. Curtiss made the first sustained seaplane flight, taking off from San Diego Bay in his D-Hydro-Aeroplane and then landing on the Pacific Ocean off San Diego. (Henri Fabre had made the first takeoff from water on March 28, 1910). The United States and Canada announced the successful negotiation of the first reciprocal trade agreement between the two nations. Aviator Roger Sommer set a new record for number of passengers on an airplane, flying five passengers in France on a 13-mile trip from Douzy to Remilly-Aillicourt, then back. The previous record had been set by Sommer on April 20, 1910, when he carried four persons on a short flight. Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier was given its first performance, at the Semper Opera House in Dresden. San Diego Opera Born: Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, in Blankenburg, Saxony-Anhalt (d. 1993) Johnnie Carr, American civil rights movement pioneer, in Montgomery, Alabama (d. 2008) January 27, 1911 (Friday) The University