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

Feb 09 Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising

Feb 10 The birth of Lon Chaney Jr., American actor.

Feb 10 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand

Feb 19 William Kellogg founds his breakfast cereal company

Feb 27 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides

Feb 01 First federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS

Apr 18 The Great San Francisco Earthquake occurred at 5:13 a.m.

Apr 21 Commander Robert Peary discovered supposed Arctic Continent did not exist.

Apr 18 SF earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of the city

Apr 07 Italian volcano 'Versuvius' erupts

Apr 06 The first animated cartoon copyrighted

Apr 28 The birth of Kurt Gödel, czech mathematician

Apr 05 St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"

Apr 18 An earthquake, followed by fire, destroys most of San Francisco, killing 3000 people

Apr 25 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #599 Luisa

Apr 20 Australian wombat dies in London Zoo at 26; oldest known marsupial

Apr 23 The Alberta Legislature sets the provincial speed limit at 10 mph in the city and 20 mph in the country. , Now it's 100 in the city and 200 in the country it seems

Apr 22 Olympic games held in Athens are not accepted by the IOC

Apr 09 3«th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS)

Apr 16 M Wolf discovers asteroid #597 Bandusia

Apr 18 The Great San Francisco Earthquake occurred at 5 13 a.m.

Apr 13 The birth of Samuel Beckett, French author

Apr 26 The first motion pictures shown in Hawaii

Apr 13 M Wolf discovers asteroid #598 Octavia

Nov 22 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help

Nov 06 Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY gov beats William Randolph Hearst

Nov 14 Roosevelt becomes first US President to visit a foreign country (Panama)

Nov 19 London selected to host 1908 Olympics

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

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