January 5

In Paris, army officer Alfred Dreyfus was publicly stripped of his rank, in an affair whose aftermath helped spur Theodor Herzl's political Zionism.

Paramahansa Yogananda, whose Autobiography of a Yogi introduced Kriya Yoga to many Western readers, was born in Gorakhpur in 1893.

George Washington Carver, the American agricultural scientist known for his research on soil-restoring crops and hundreds of uses for the peanut and sweet potato, died at Tuskegee.