Well, we screwed this up earlier and posted April 9's events where April 6 should have been.
Gen. Charles W. H. Douglas replaced Field-Marshal Sir John French as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, a fateful assignment on what would prove to be the eve of the Great War.
Douglas had been in the British Army since 1869 and was a South African by birth. Given his date of entry into the service, he'd had a long and varied career during the high colonial era, but by 1914, he was not well. The strain of the war would kill him on October 25, 1914, at which time he was 64 years of age.
The American Radio Relay League was founded by Hiram Percy Maxim, an early figure in the invention of radio.
The Ham Radio club still exists.
Polish realist painter Józef Marian Chełmoński died at age 64.
Four In Hand by Chełmoński.
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