On this day in 1811, the first women's golf tournament took place in Scotland.
On this day in 1929, the world's first training center for guide dogs for the blind was established in Nashville, Tennessee.
On this day in 1933, students of a Japanese girl's college committed suicide en masse at Mt. Mihara on Oshima Island. Up to the end of that year, a total of 804 male and 1,104 female students throughout the country followed suit.