The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the coast of Wisconsin. U.S. Weather Service is founded. The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis president and Alexander H. Stephens vice president. The ensuing fight, which featured his wife threatening to shoot herself, got into the papers and harmed Debussy professionally for awhile. Doctor Doyen of Paris, performs a successful operation on Siamese twins from the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Japanese troops land near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers.
She died in 1970. The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission. It was renamed Aeroflot in 1932. Detachment 101 harried the Japanese in Burma and provided close support for regular Allied forces. Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship.