Jun 22 First airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland

Jun 20 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal

Jun 23 The birth of Jean Anouilh, French playwright

Jun 13 William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia

Jun 11 The birth of Jaques Cousteau, French underwater explorer

Jun 13 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes first 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila

Jun 22 First passengers carried on the Zeppelin airship

Jun 04 The birth of Christopher Cockerell, Hovercraft inventor

Jun 05 J Helffrich discovers asteroids #699 Hela & #700 Auravictrix

Jun 02 The first roundtrip flight over the English Channel (C.S. Rolls, England)

Jun 02 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea

Jun 25 The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.

Jun 19 Father's Day celebrated for first time (Spokane, Wash)

Dec 19 Rayon first commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA

Dec 22 US postal savings stamps first issued

Dec 24 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain

Aug 22 Japan annexes Korea

Aug 27 The birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Nobel Peace Prize winner

Oct 02 First 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)

Oct 01 Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (first state fair)

Oct 05 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic

Oct 29 Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game

Oct 04 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England

Oct 23 Blanche Scott became First woman solo a public airplane flight

Jul 01 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion

Jul 16 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #702 Alauda

Jul 04 Jack Johnson KOs James Jeffries in 15 rounds, ending come-back try

Jul 14 The birth of William Hanna, American cartoonist

Jul 01 Chicago's Comiskey Park opens

Jul 09 Walter Brookins becomes first to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude

Jul 10 Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope, dies

Jul 12 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #701 Oriola

Mar 05 Rogers Pass BC, an avalanche kills sixty-two railroad workers in the pass

Mar 10 The first film made in Hollywood ('Old Califormia') released

Mar 02 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington WA, 118 die

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