Apr 27 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens

Apr 22 American Power Boat Association forms

Apr 29 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)

Apr 20 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #508 Princetonia

Apr 28 M Wolf discovers asteroid #509 Iolanda

Apr 29 Frank Alberta at 4:10 am, a huge 74 million tonne slab of limestone slides off the east slope of Turtle Mountain and sweeps 1.6 km through the Crowsnest Pass valley and the coal mining village of Frank, burying the mine entrance and killing at least 70 people in 100 seconds; only 23 survive, and 17 trapped miners dig themselves to safety 13 hours later. The slab is 400 metres high, 1200 metres wide and 150 metres thick.

Apr 19 The birth of Eliot Ness, American agent who put Al Capone behind bars

Apr 29 Frank Alberta at 4 10 am, a huge 74 million tonne slab of limestone slides off the east slope of Turtle Mountain and sweeps 1.6 km through the Crowsnest Pass valley and the coal mining village of Frank, burying the mine entrance and killing at least 70 people in 100 seconds; only 23 survive, and 17 trapped miners dig themselves to safety 13 hours later. The slab is 400 metres high, 1200 metres wide and 150 metres thick.

Nov 19 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate

Nov 23 Enrico Caruso, famed Italian tenor, made his debut in the United States at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. He sang in the role of the Duke in Rigoletto.

Nov 03 Panama Declares Its Independence from Colombia

Nov 27 The opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)

Nov 24 Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter

Nov 18 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama

Sep 03 Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup

Sep 06 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Creeping Man" (BG)

Sep 22 Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone

Sep 07 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY

Jun 07 Professor Pierre Curie reveals the discovery of the element Polonium.

Jun 18 The first transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later

Jun 16 Ford Motors incorporates

Jun 12 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city

Jun 02 The birth of Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and 'Tarzan'

Jun 11 King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbian army.

Jun 25 The birth of George Orwell, English novelist

Jun 04 A new element, Polonium, discovered by Curie husband and wife team

Jun 23 M Wolf discovers asteroid #512 Taurinensis

Dec 30 600 people die in a fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago.

Dec 13 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (NJ)

Dec 27 The barbershop quartet favorite, Sweet Adeline, was sung for the first time -- in New York City

Dec 18 Panama Canal Zone acquired 'in perpetuity', by the USA for an annual rent

Dec 17 At 10:35 AM, first sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)

Dec 27 "Sweet Adeline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is first sung

Dec 30 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans

Dec 17 The birth of Erskine Caldwell, American novelist

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