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
