Booker T. Washington dined at the White House, an event which sparked controversy and massive discontent in some quarters.
Nearly a quarter of Company E, U.S. 9th Infantry, were killed in an ambush on Samar. Six were wounded. It was still a better result than occured at Balangiga on September 28.
Jean-Luc Krieger drove 191 miles in France in an electric car without recharging.
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Native American Jim Thorpe played his first professional football game in a 16–0 Canton Bulldogs' loss to the Massillon Tigers.
Thorpe would win Olympic gold medals, and played professional football baseball and basketball. He was he most versatile athlete of all time. He served as a merchant marine in World War Two, but descended into alcoholism and died nearly penniless in 1953 at age 65.
Booker T. Washington died at age 59 in Tuskegee, Alabama of overwork, Bright's disease and congestive heart failure.
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