10:30 a.m. Nikola Tesla dies in his sleep in his Manhattan hotel room. He was 86. Sculptor Hugo Gernsback is hired to collect a death mask of the inventor. Eleanor Roosevelt immediately writes a letter of condolence. New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia reads a eulogy for the famous scientist. Three Nobel Prize winners in physics—Millika, Compton, and James Franck—join together to write the eulogy: “…one of the world’s greatest intellects who pioneered many of the technological developments of modern times.”
