Mar 07 Charles Collier wins first Isle of Man TT Race (38.22 mph)

Mar 15 Finland is first European country to give women the right to vote

Mar 19 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch NV (state record)

Mar 31 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt

Mar 02 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal

Mar 12 At Toulon, France, the battleship Iena explodes, killing at least 118 men

Mar 16 First first-class cricket game between New South Wales &Western Australia

Mar 21 US invades Honduras

Mar 09 Hamilton news vendor fined $30 for selling US papers on a Sunday.

Mar 09 First involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana

Aug 01 Bank of Italy opens first branch in San Francisco

Aug 10 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Peking to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally

Aug 26 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec

Aug 13 First taxicab (NYC)

Aug 15 Members of Australia's federal parliament vote themselves their first pay rise, of 50 per cent.

Aug 31 England, Russia & France form the Triple Entente

Aug 03 Royal decree in Portugal makes Sunday a day of rest

Sep 26 New Zealand becomes a dominion

Sep 29 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral

Sep 25 New Zealand becomes a dominion within the British Empire

Sep 10 The birth of Fay Wray, US actress

Sep 07 Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire

Feb 13 English suffragettes storm British Parliament &60 women are arrested

Feb 25 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic

Feb 26 US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500

Feb 21 The birth of W.H Auden, English poet

Feb 11 De Master's Dutch government resigns

Feb 13 Portage la Prairie Manitoba is incorporated as a city

Feb 03 The birth of James Michener, American author

Feb 21 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead)

Feb 22 Cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London

Feb 26 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)

Feb 11 Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die

Apr 14 The birth of Francois Duvalier, Dictator of Haiti

Apr 09 P Lowell discovers asteroid #793 Arizona

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