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)

Feb 16 Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary

Feb 09 The first forestry school is incorporated at Kent OH

Feb 09 The birth of Carmen Miranda, Brazilian actress.

Feb 28 The birth of Linus Pauling, American chemist and physicist

Apr 06 The first credit union established in US

Apr 30 The birth of Queen Juliana Of Holland

Apr 06 Commander Robert E. Peary &Matthew Henson reports reaching the North Pole

Apr 27 Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown

Apr 22 A Kopff discovers asteroid #680 Genoveva

Apr 12 Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens

Apr 06 The North Pole reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary

Nov 13 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill

Nov 09 The birth of Katherine Hepburn, American actress

Nov 18 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya

Nov 18 The birth of Johnny Mercer, US composer

Nov 23 18.2 cm (7.17") of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state record)

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

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

Jun 07 The birth of Jessica Tandy, American actress; 'Driving Miss Daisy'

Jun 10 SOS signal used as an emergency call for the first time

Jun 10 A Morse Code SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency as the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.

Jun 28 The first French air show, Concours d'Avation opens

Jun 20 The birth of Errol Flynn, Australian born Hollywood film actor

Jun 07 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens

Jun 17 A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar

Jun 01 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle

Jun 16 The first US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000

Dec 04 First Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26, Toronto Parkdale 6)

Dec 21 University of Copenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was first to North Pole

Dec 11 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC

Dec 23 Albert becomes king of Belgium

Dec 01 The First Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa

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