Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon was born to a wealthy family in Savannah, Georgia.  Her father served as a Confederate Army officer and after the war she spent a few years in Chicago with her maternal grandparents as the family fortune was rebuilt.  She married a cotton manufacturer but, after she was widowed in 1905, met and befriended Robert Baden Powell and his sister.  After a time in England, she returned to the U.S. to found in 1915 the American version of their institution, the Girl Scouts.  She died in January, 1927.  (By John Osborne)  

Leonard Wood was born a doctor's son in Massachusetts and attended Harvard Medical School.  He won a Medal of Honor in the campaigns against Geronimo in Arizona, served as the personal physician of Presidents Cleveland and McKinley, and commanded the "Rough Riders' in Cuba. He became Army Chief of Staff in 1910 and in 1921 was a Republican presidential candidate, winning the New Hampshire primary.  He died in August 1927. (By John Osborne)

The city of Vladivostok  was founded after the Treaty of Aigun ceded a large Pacific province and the island of Sakhalin to the Russian Empire in 1858.  A fort was constructed in the area the following year and on July 2, 1860 the city was officially chartered.  It was to become the largest Russian port on the Pacific.  Vladivostok is now the capital of Russia's Maritime Province and longtime headquarters of the Russian Pacific Fleet.  (By John Osborne)

British physician and scientist Thomas Addison, the discoverer of Addison's Disease, a disorder of the adrenal gland, died after crushing his skull in a fall near his home in Brighton.  The seventy-three year old Addison was a victim of deep depression and the fall was deliberate.  He had been born near Newcastle, the son of a grocer, and educated at the University of Edinburgh.  He spent most his career at Guy's Hospital in London.  (By John Osborne)