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
