Mar 10 Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title

Mar 04 President Taft inaugrated as 27th President during 10" snowstorm

Mar 04 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds

Mar 31 Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time

Mar 13 Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 sets up Strathcona Trust, a fund for military training and cadet corps in schools.

Mar 14 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms

Mar 02 Great Britain, France, Germany &Italy ask Serbia to set no territorial demands

Mar 18 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes first ham broadcast

Mar 07 Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)

Mar 30 Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens

Aug 24 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal

Aug 02 The first Lincoln head pennies minted

Aug 29 World's first air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins

Aug 02 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers

Aug 27 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game

Aug 29 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m

Aug 01 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers

Aug 11 SOS first used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC

Aug 01 The first Lincoln head pennies minted

Aug 19 First race at the Indianapolis 500 Speedway

Aug 08 R S Falkiner of Moonbria sheep station in NSW demonstrates first electric sheep-shears.

Aug 05 Canadian Pacific completes the Kicking Horse grade relocation on the main line between Hector and Field, B.C. by substituting two spiral tunnels and lengthened line on a grade of 2.2% compensated, for the old "Big Hill" straight grade of 4.5%.

Sep 06 Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier

Sep 14 The birth of Peter Scott, British naturalist and artist

Feb 22 Great White Fleet, first US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia

Feb 28 The birth of Stephen Spender, English poet

Feb 01 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens

Feb 23 At Baddeck, Nova Scotia J. A. D. McCurdy flies the Bell designed Silver Dart at an altitude of about 10 metres for nearly one kilometre across Baddeck Bay; first airplane flight in Canada by a Canadian; first powered flight in British Empire.

Feb 21 John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London

Feb 23 Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet

Feb 08 France &Germany sign treaty about Morocco

Feb 12 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded

Feb 16 Subway car with side doors goes into service (New York NY)

Feb 11 The birth of Joseph Mankiewicz, American director.

Feb 09 First federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)

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