Nov 27 Albanian National Flag adopted

Nov 27 Spanish protectorate in Morocco established

Nov 28 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman empire

Nov 12 The bodies of the members of Scott's Antarctic expedition are found.

Dec 14 Canadian Pacific leases Quebec Central Railway Company, Quebec

Dec 16 The first US postage stamp picturing an airplane, $0.20 parcel post, issued

Dec 28 San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)

May 05 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing

May 05 5th modern Olympic games opens in Stockholm Sweden

May 19 American League president Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball

May 19 Navy establishes North Atlantic Ice Patrol following RMS Titanic disaster

May 01 Beverly Hills Hotel opens

May 15 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game & is suspended

May 28 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs South Africa

May 01 Canada issues first five-dollar bank note.

May 13 Royal Flying Corps is established in England

May 29 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break

May 30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua

May 18 Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies

May 04 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes

May 03 In Halifax Nova Scotia, the first Titanic victims are buried in Halifax

May 31 US marines land on Cuba

Jul 06 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens

Jul 26 First airborne radio communications from naval aircraft to ship (LT John Rodgers to USS Stringham)

Jul 15 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect

Jul 16 Bradley A. Fiske patented the airplane torpedo

Jul 14 The birth of Woody Guthrie, American folk musician

Jul 12 The first foreign feature film exhibited in US-"Queen Elizabeth"-NYC

Jul 16 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske

Jul 25 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies

Jul 31 US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)

Jul 31 First attempt to launch an airplane by catapult made at Annapolis.

Jul 13 Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area at Yanco, NSW, is officially opened.

Jul 22 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes

Jun 04 Massachusetts passes first US minimum wage law

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