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Mar 26 The Prince Edward Island Assembly passes a law to ban all automobiles from its roads, since rescinded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.
Aug 20 Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo 1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
Aug 25 Allen Winter wins US first $50,000 trotting race
Aug 14 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
Aug 22 The birth of Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer
Aug 30 The birth of Fred MacMurray, American actor
Aug 17 Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay &Montgomery
Sep 16 General Motors founded by William C Durant
Sep 23 University of Alberta opens
Sep 09 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
Sep 17 Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight
Feb 03 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
Feb 12 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska &Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
Feb 11 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
