Jul 06 Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for the north pole

Jul 06 CDR Robert Peary sails in Roosevelt from New York to explore Arctic.

Jul 13 4th modern Olympic games opens in London

Jul 29 St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila Athletics

Jul 23 A Kopff discovers asteroids #666 Desdemona & #667 Denise

Jul 26 Federal Bureau of Investigation established

Jul 26 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formed

Jul 27 A Kopff discovers asteroid #668 Dora

Jul 22 W Lorenz discovers asteroid #665 Sabine

Jul 07 Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay

Mar 07 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council &announced that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"

Mar 08 Collingwood Elementary (Cleveland) burns, kills 173 kids &2 teachers

Mar 26 The Prince Edward Island Assembly passes a law to ban all automobiles from its roads, since rescinded

Mar 08 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York

Mar 05 The birth of Rex Harrison, English actor

Mar 11 Laurier government creates National Battlefields Commission; partly to save Quebec's Plains of Abraham from property development.

Mar 17 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 88 seconds)

Mar 25 The birth of David Lean, British director

Mar 05 First ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica

Mar 04 Collingwood OH primary school catches fire; 180 die

Mar 20 The birth of Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor

Mar 08 First International Women's Day, founded by German labor activist Clara Zetkin.

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