Mar 04 First US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed

Mar 24 Netherlands soccer team's first victory over England

Mar 10 Death of Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor who rescued more than 300 of her people from slavery.

Mar 25 Great Dayton Flood

Mar 01 State law requiring bonding of officers &state employees, North Dakota

Mar 03 Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC

Mar 26 Dayton OH almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, &Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously

Mar 21 Flood in Ohio, kills 400

Mar 04 Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments

Mar 01 Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)

Mar 12 Foundation stone of the Australian capitol in Canberra laid

Mar 15 First Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)

Mar 07 British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote

Mar 08 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy &collect income taxes

Mar 12 Canberra becomes the capital of Australia when the foundation stone of the Federal Parliament building is laid.

Mar 15 Cleveland establishes first small claims court

Mar 14 John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation

Mar 13 Kansas legislature approves censorship of motion pictures

Mar 04 Gabriel Fauré's opera "Pénélope", premieres in Monte Carlo

Mar 26 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the first Balkan War

Mar 04 New York Yankees are first to train outside US (Bermuda)

Mar 04 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th President

Aug 27 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)

Aug 30 US Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot)

Aug 16 The birth of Menachem Begin, Israeli statesman

Aug 20 First pilot to parachute from a French aircraft

Aug 13 Canadian Army troops called out at Nanaimo British Columbia to stop rioting.

Aug 10 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses

Sep 06 The first aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe P‚goud-France)

Sep 21 The first aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France

Sep 10 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway

Sep 22 Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico

Sep 10 Cleveland Call &Post established

Sep 10 George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia

Sep 03 The birth of Alan Ladd, American film actor

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