Jan 03 US postal savings bank inaugurated

Jan 01 Belgian Mining law introduces 9½-hour work day

Jan 16 Pandora becomes first 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east

Jan 05 Portuguese expel Jesuits

Jan 05 San Francisco has it's first air meet

Jan 17 First aircraft landing on board a ship, USS Pennsylvania by Eugene Ely.

Jan 13 Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay

Jan 13 South Africa's first win over Australia, at Adelaide

Jan 30 The first rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba

Jan 18 The first shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)

Jan 17 Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly

Jan 13 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin

Jan 01 South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government

Jan 28 Frenchman Henri Rougier wins first Rally of Monte Carlo

Jan 10 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs South Africa, goes on to get 214

Jan 07 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam

Jan 31 Congress names San Francisco as Panama Canal opening celebration site

Feb 06 First old-age home opened in Prescott AZ where are the golf courses?

Feb 05 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam

Feb 08 US helps overthrow President Miguel Dávila of Honduras

Feb 06 The birth of Ronald Reagan, Former actor and US (40th) President

Feb 06 Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey

Feb 06 Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois in 1911

Feb 21 Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique)

Apr 04 Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP

Apr 05 Waldorf W Aster acquires the Daily Observer

Apr 18 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #713 Luscinia

Apr 05 MCC tour match vs Jamaica finishes in a tie

Apr 12 A non-stop London-Paris flight takes 3h56m the first time

Apr 03 Harry James Smith' "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh", premieres in NYC

Apr 12 LT Theodore Ellyson qualifies as first naval aviator

Apr 05 W W Aster acquires the Daily Observer

Apr 22 H E Wood discovers asteroid #715 Transvaalia

Nov 05 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing first transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)

Nov 01 Introduction of compulsory military training

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