Aug 21 Mr Carter-Cotton chosen first chancellor of Univ of British Columbia

Aug 24 NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians

Aug 24 US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition the govt

Aug 14 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925

Aug 27 Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.

Aug 24 Alaska becomes a U.S. territory.

Oct 19 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control

Oct 18 Beginning of the first Balkan War

Oct 18 Italo-Turkish war ends

Oct 04 Nicaraguan Gen Zeledon, opponent of US occupation, is executed

Oct 29 The size of the U.S. flag is set by presidential order.

Oct 08 First Balkan War begins

Oct 17 Turkey declares war on Bulgaria and Serbia.

Oct 14 An assassin shoots Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee. A thick coat and documents he was carrying save his life

Oct 05 Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium

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

Mar 30 French protectorate in Morocco established

Mar 14 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt

Mar 17 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick

Mar 16 Mrs William Howard Taft plants first cherry tree in Washington DC

Mar 07 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole

Mar 12 Captain Albert Berry performs first parachute jump from an airplane

Mar 11 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-minute periods, formerly played in 30-minute halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep

Mar 23 Dixie Cup invented

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