A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks, others have thrown at him.
An American physician and the first woman to receive the medical degree in the United States.
An American writer and critic who is well known for her books, The Making of Americans (1925) and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933).
An American novelist who has written a number of blockbuster novels including Hawaii.
An important English social historian and peace Campaigner.
The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing African-American voting rights, becomes law.
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which provides for a federal income tax, is ratified.
The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Paris, chaired by US President Woodrow Wilson.
Buddy Holly, along with Ritchie Valens (who had a number one hit on the charts) and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), perish in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
Yasser Arafat is appointed chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

An American writer of novels and plays, was born on February 3, 1874, Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Stein was educated at College Radcliffe and University of Johns Hopkins. Stein experimented with the uses of language throughout her life. She made radical innovations in syntax and punctuation. In 1935, she explains some of her composition theories in her Lectures, which she gave in America. Stein's most celebrated early works were "Three Lives" and "The Making of Americans". Her work “Three lives” was a case study of three women and in The making of Americans was based on the cultural and social history of her family.
She died on July 27, 1946, in Nanterre, France.
Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal