Nov 23 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital

Nov 05 First transcontinental airplane flight arrives at Pasadena, CA from New York. The flight lasted a whopping 82 hours, 4 minutes.

Nov 06 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico

Nov 18 Britain's first seaplane flies

Nov 12 The birth of Rev. Chad Varah, Founder of the 'Samaritans'

Nov 05 Italy attacks Turkey, takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica

Sep 01 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km

Sep 04 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)

Sep 09 The first airmail service (British Post Office)

Sep 17 First transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min

Sep 22 Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th & final game

Sep 18 Britain's first twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown

Sep 29 Italy declares war on Turkey over who owns Tripoli, Libya

Jun 06 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)

Jun 20 NAACP incorporates (NY)

Jun 22 King George V of England crowned

Jun 26 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)

Jun 30 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes

Jun 01 The first US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ

Dec 30 Sun Yat-sen is elected as the first president of the Republic of China.

Dec 03 The birth of Nino Rota, Italian composer

Dec 14 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his expedition of four companions, are the first to reach the South Pole and return safely.

Dec 10 Calbraith Rogers completes first crossing of US by airplane (84 days)

Dec 14 Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, becomes the first man to reach the South Pole

Dec 23 The opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)

Dec 29 San Francisco Symphony formed

Dec 30 Sun Yat-sen elected first President of Republic of China

Aug 22 Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre

Aug 10 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords

Aug 22 Mona Lisa' stolen from the Louvre art gallery, Paris

Oct 10 Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus

Oct 24 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole

Oct 20 Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole

Jul 01 Formation of Royal Australian Navy (RAN)

Jul 04 Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak

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