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

Dec 10 Marie Curie becomes the first woman to receive a Nobel prize

Dec 09 The Norwegian government refuses a proposal to give women the vote

Dec 19 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan

Dec 16 Majestic Theater, New York NY, becomes first in US to employ women ushers

Dec 30 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago

Aug 01 First coast-to-coast automobile trip (San Francisco to New York ) completed

Aug 15 New Zealand wins first rugby union test against Australia, 22-3.

Aug 19 Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game

Aug 07 The birth of Louis Leakey, British archaeologist

Aug 01 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey

Aug 02 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey

Oct 09 11" rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)

Oct 28 The birth of Evelyn Waugh, English novelist

Oct 24 George Sutton becomes billiard champ

Oct 24 The National Transcontinental Railway Act is passed. In order to expand into Western Canada the Grand Trunk Railway agrees to build a line from Moncton, New Brunswick to Quebec, then on a more northerly route than on any other transcontinental line to a point on the British Columbia Coast, which was to become Prince Rupert. The part between Moncton and Winnipeg was to be known as the National Transcontinental Railway and was to be built by the government. The line west of Winnipeg, to be known as the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, was to be built by the Grand Trunk itself.

Oct 25 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin

Oct 26 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay

Oct 20 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada

Jul 19 The first ever 'Tour de France' cycle race ends

Jul 20 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X

Jul 04 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message

Jul 06 George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF

Jul 25 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes

Mar 10 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine

Mar 02 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York NY

Mar 15 Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa

Mar 23 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent

Mar 26 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam

Mar 15 British conquest of northern Nigeria is complete.

Mar 03 North Carolina becomes first state requiring registration of nurses

Mar 22 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought

Mar 31 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)

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