-   **July 8:** At Kiel, an object reddened by the [Sun](Sun.html), as large as a rainbow, at a height of 12°, remained bright for 5 minutes, then faded, remained almost stationary and disappeared after 8 minutes [\[*Nature*, 58-294\]]{.source}.


- A Professor Michailovitch from the Belgrade Observatory is following a "comet" that remains stationary in the sky for 6 minutes [[Vallée](ValleeJacques.html), 1965, p. 35]{.source}.


- Publication of [*The War of the Worlds*](http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html), by Herbert George Wells.