May 22 Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Middlesex vs Somerset

May 31 Taxis first began running in NYC

May 02 Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian Government

May 13 The birth of Daphne du Maurier, English novelist

May 22 The birth of Laurence Olivier, British actor of stage and screen

May 26 The birth of John Wayne, American actor who made many westerns

May 15 Toronto Ontario, plumbers go on four-month strike nobody plug the toilet!!!!!

May 11 Bank of San Fransisco incorporated

May 27 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Fransisco

May 28 The first Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy

May 01 Belgian Government of De Trooz forms

May 04 Ottawa hit by 19.1 cm snowfall; city's greatest one day May snowfall.

May 08 Tommy Burns beats Jack O'Brien in 20 for heavyweight boxing title

May 01 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Netherlands-Indies)

May 25 The first national assembly, in which women had parliamentary seats, opens in Finland

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

Jan 01 President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day

Jan 06 Maria Montessori opens her first (Montessori) school (Rome)

Jan 04 George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London

Jan 15 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest

Jan 25 Julia Ward Howe is first woman elected to National Institute of Arts &Letters

Jan 06 Maria Montessori opens her first (Montessori) school (Rome)

Jan 31 Timothy Eaton, founder of the T. Eaton Company of Canada, dies; an innovative retailer, he maintained fixed prices and cash sales, with satisfaction guaranteed

Jan 26 J M Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" opens; police are called

Jan 21 Kenora Thistles sweep Montana Wanderers in 2 for the Stanley Cup

Jan 23 Charles Curtis, the first Native American to become a U.S. senator, begins serving his term. (Twenty-two years later, Curtis resigned to become Vice President of the U.S. with President Herbert Hoover's administration.)

Jan 07 Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in New York City NY

Jan 04 George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London

Jan 12 Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal

Jan 07 Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in New York City NY

Jan 23 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes first Native American US senator

Jan 31 Timothy Eaton, founder of the T. Eaton Company of Canada, dies; an innovative retailer, he maintained fixed prices and cash sales, with satisfaction guaranteed

Jan 01 President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day

Jan 18 Variety magazine publishes film reviews for the first time.

Jan 19 Variety magazine publishes film reviews for the first time.

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