Dec 30 Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball

Dec 06 Coal mine explosions in Monongah WV, kills 361

Dec 19 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek PA

Dec 23 First all-steel passenger railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa

Dec 09 First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)

Dec 16 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World Cruise

Dec 31 For the first time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year

Dec 02 Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir to retain the heavyweight boxing title

Dec 20 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91

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

Oct 05 Phila A's Rube Vickers no-hits Wash Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game

Oct 05 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)

Jul 16 The birth of Barbra Stanwick, American film actress

Jul 19 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #639 Latona

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

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