Jan 07 Ottawa Senators sweep Galt in 2 games for the Stanley Cup

Jan 01 Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs

Jan 26 Heavy rains cause floods in Paris

Jan 13 JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin

Feb 23 First radio contest held (Philadelphia)

Feb 23 George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London

Feb 01 The first British labour exchange opens

Feb 01 Dragoumis government forms in Greece

Feb 28 The birth of Vincente Minelli, Italian director

Feb 25 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies

Feb 08 Boy Scouts of America incorporated &chartered (William D Boyce-Chicago)

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

Apr 03 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley climbed

Apr 01 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completed a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk

Apr 21 Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], author, dies in Redding Conn

Apr 23 International Exhibition opens in Brussels

Apr 20 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km

Apr 18 Walter R. Brookins made the first airplane flight at night.

Apr 08 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completed a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk

Apr 14 President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day

Apr 28 The first night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)

Nov 08 Tolstoy, Russian novelist, dies.

Nov 22 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs

Nov 08 First Washington State election in which women could vote

Nov 20 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero

Nov 12 First Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

Nov 12 First Movie stunt man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

Nov 14 The first airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va

Nov 27 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal

Nov 14 The first take off by an aircraft from a ship takes place, from the cruiser Birmingham in Chesapeake Bay

Sep 27 The first test flight of a twin-engined airplance (France)

Sep 10 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber

Sep 11 First commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)

Sep 12 World's first police woman appointed in Los Angeles, USA

Sep 17 First ever flight over the Alps

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