The first Boy Scout Rally was held at Crystal Palace, London. 11,000 Scouts attended.
A group of girls approached the Scout's founder, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, and asked for him to create an organization for girls, which was then entrusted to his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell. They would become the Girl Guides.
I'm tempted to comment on declined standards, and contemporary events, but I'll forgo it.
Japan and China agreed to the positioning of the north east Chinese-Korean border at the Gando Convention. The boundary that was established was a natural one, being a watercourse.
Today, due to 19th and 20th Century migration, a large ethnically Korean population lives north of North Korea in the People's Republic of China, in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture which rivals the combined North and South Korea in size.
Orville Wright made the first airplane flight in Germany.
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