Greedy industrialist turned benevolent philanthropist Andrew Carnegie pledges $5.2 million for the construction of 65 branch libraries in New York
City -- barely 1 percent of his net worth at the time.
The Westmoreland County (Pa.) Coal Strike ? known as the "Slovak strike" because some 70 percent of the 15,000 strikers were Slovakian immigrants ?
begins on this date and continues for nearly 16 months before ending in defeat.