Mar 10 London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)

Mar 10 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France

Mar 17 Japan nationalises its railways

Mar 15 Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd

Mar 29 In Winnipeg Manitoba, street railway employees riot during two-day strike.

Mar 16 Kagi, Formosa a 7.1 earthquake caused 1,300 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.

Mar 12 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast

Mar 06 Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands

Mar 09 Coal miners at Lethbridge Alberta go on strike; until December 2

Mar 07 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor

Mar 06 Nora Blatch becomes first woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers

Mar 14 Calgary City Rugby Football Club forms

Mar 03 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France

Mar 19 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi", premieres in Munich

Mar 31 George Bernard Shaw's German version of "Caesar and Cleopatra", premieres in Berlin

Mar 24 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world - how things will change!

Mar 31 King Edward VII grants British Columbia's Coat-of-Arms.

Mar 17 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckraker"

Aug 02 Chicago White Sox begin record 19 game win streak

Aug 13 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas

Aug 22 First Victor Victrola manufactured

Aug 01 Chicago White Sox begin record 19 game win streak

Aug 15 First freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago

Aug 05 The birth of John Huston, American film director

Sep 09 Cpl. Leo Clark (2nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Pozières France

Sep 28 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909

Sep 01 Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time

Sep 01 Papua placed under Australian administration

Sep 13 The first airplane flight in Europe

Feb 15 British Labour Party organizes

Feb 19 W K Kellogg &Charles D Bolin incorporate Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, Battle Creek MI

Feb 22 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles CA

Feb 10 Britain's first modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched, it changed the battleship concept fo rthe world

Feb 01 English Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured

Feb 23 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for heavyweight boxing champion in 20 rounds

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