marks the invisible return of Jesus Christ to earth. Gold is discovered in the Black Hills. DDT is first synthesized. The San Diego Natural History Museum is founded. The following Association football clubs are founded in Great Britain: Aston Villa. Bolton Wanderers (as Christ Church F.C.) Greenock Morton. English chemist C. R. Alder Wright synthesizes heroin for the first time. The Supreme Council 33° Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Canada is founded. The medieval Frankish Tower on the Acropolis of Athens is demolished. Schindler Group, known for escalators and elevators, is founded in Switzerland. Births January January 1 Alexandros Hatzikyriakos, Greek admiral, politician (d. 1958) Gustave Whitehead, German-born aviation pioneer (d. 1927) January 4 – Josef Suk, Czech composer, violinist (d. 1935) January 5 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) January 12 – Marta Anna Wiecka, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (d. 1904) January 16 – Robert W. Service, American poet (d. 1958) January 20 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer, cricketer and baseball player (d. 1938) January 21 – Frederick M. Smith, American religious leader, author (d. 1946) January 25 – W. Somerset Maugham, English author (d. 1965) January 28 Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre practitioner (d. 1940) Gheorghe Mironescu, two-time prime minister of Romania (d. 1949) January 29 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960) February February 1 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929) February 3 – Gertrude Stein, American writer, patron of the arts (d. 1946) February 6 – Henry C. Mustin, American naval aviation pioneer (d. 1923) February 9 – Amy Lowell, American poet (d. 1925) February 11 Elsa Beskow, Swedish writer (d. 1953) Fritz Hart, English-born composer (d. 1949) February 15 – Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (d. 1922) February 17 – Thomas J. Watson, American computer pioneer (d. 1956) February 19 – Carl Stockdale, American actor (d. 1953) February 20 – Mary Garden, American opera soprano of Scots descent (some sources state her birth year as 1877) (d. 1967) February 23 – Konstantin Päts, 1st President of Estonia (d. 1956) February 24 – Honus Wagner, American baseball player (d. 1955) February 26 – Nikolai Korotkov, Russian surgeon (d. 1920) March March 5 – Henry Travers, English actor (d. 1965) March 16 – Frédéric François-Marsal, Prime Minister of France (d. 1958) March 24 Luigi Einaudi, 2nd president of Italy (d. 1961) Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born