Thousands of workers marched in Berlin in protest over the Prussian three-class franchise, a law in which the wealthiest one-fifth of the voters had two-thirds of the seats in Germany's parliament, and were attacked with bayonets by the city police and the Prussian army.
Born: William Shockley, American inventor who won the 1956 Nobel Prize (Physics) for role in inventing the transistor; later a controversial proponent of eugenics, in London, England (d.