China and the Eight-Nation Alliance formally agreed on an indemnity plan for China to pay 450,000,000 taels ($332,000,000), along with four percent annual interest, to the nations over the course of the next 40 years for reparations arising from the Boxer Rebellion.
The first section of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad opened with the first train service in French Somalia, on a 67mi section from the Port of Djibouti to Douanlé, located on the border with Ethiopia.