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January 1 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square January 1 Jack Hobbs makes his Test debut at the MCG (83 and 28) January 2 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa January 7 England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG January 9 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium January 9 Muir Woods National Monument, California established January 13 French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip January 13 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170 January 13 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games January 14 Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut vs. Eng Adelaide (116) January 15 C Hill and R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust January 16 Pinnacles National Monument, California established January 18 Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres January 21 August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm January 21 New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public January 23 US and Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo January 24 Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts January 25 John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp January 27 Pasiphae, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte January 29 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates February 3 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act February 7 Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St. Louis Browns for $5,000 February 8 Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth February 10 Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title February 11 Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England February 11 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland February 12 Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female February 12 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in New York City George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel February 18 1st U.S. postage stamps in rolls issued February 25 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens February 27 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954) February 27 Star #46 was added to U.S. flag for Oklahoma February 28 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran February 29 Dutch scientists produce solid helium March 4 Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die March 5 1st ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica March 7 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles" March 8 Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers March 8 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York March 12 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games March 14 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4 March 15 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole" March 17 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds) March 17 Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title April 2 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday April 3 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs April 5 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns April 8 Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier April 12 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts April 13 Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's and Phillies) April 16 Natural Bridges National Monument forms near Lake Powell, Utah April 18 Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title April 20 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of New York in 2:25:43.2 April 21 Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't April 22 Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba April 23 Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands and Sweden sign North Sea accord April 24 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across U.S. by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard and arrive in New York City in 32d-5h-25m April 27 4th modern Olympic games opens in London May 1 World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama May 5 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2 May 5 Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco May 9 Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname May 10 1st Mother's Day observed May 12 George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married," premieres in London May 12 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B. Stubblefield May 14 1st passenger flight in an airplane May 21 1st horror movie (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) premieres in Chicago May 21 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th May 23 Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die May 23 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington May 24 Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election May 24 John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan," premieres in London May 30 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved May 30 42nd Belmont: Joe Notter aboard Colin win May 30 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System May 30 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane May 30 U.S. Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized May 31 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium) June 1 John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of U.S., which took 357 days June 2 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4 June 10 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of New York, opens June 12 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours, New York City June 13 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title June 15 World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam June 24 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276) June 30 Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats New York Highlanders, 8-0 June 30 Giant fireball impacts in Siberia (Tunguska Event) (Enckes comet) July 4 New York Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn July 6 Robert Peary's expedition sails from New York City for north pole July 7 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay July 9 CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms July 10 H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269 degrees C) July 13 4th modern Olympic games opens in London July 19 Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam July 24 John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record) July 26 Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice July 29 St. Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics July 30 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris August 6 St. Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn August 13 Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team August 14 Race riot in Springfield Illinois August 17 B Tarkington and HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in New York City August 17 Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay and Montgomery August 20 Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo August 24 New York Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at MSG August 24 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title August 25 Allen Winter wins U.S. 1st $50,000 trotting race August 25 National Association of Colored Nurses, forms August 27 Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers August 28 14th U.S. Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass August 29 N.Y. gives a ticker tape parade to returning U.S. Olympians from London September 2 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title September 3 James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London September 4 Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship September 5 Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 September 9 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va September 9 Russia takes part of Poland September 12 Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier September 16 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp September 16 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc September 17 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight September 18 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1 September 19 Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, premieres in Prague September 20 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Philadelphia 1-0 September 22 Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey) September 23 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th and disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay and pennant) September 23 University of Alberta opens September 24 Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1 September 25 Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout September 26 Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader September 29 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms September 30 Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'oiseau Blue," premieres in Moscow October 1 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague) October 1 Henry Ford introduces Model T car October 1 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1 October 2 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row October 5 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar October 5 White Sox Ed Walsh tops Detroit 6-1 for his 40th victory October 6 Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina October 6 Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant October 6 Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season October 7 Crete revolts against Turkey and aligns with Greece October 7 Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact October 8 New York Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920) October 10 Baseball Writers Association, formed October 14 Baseball Writers Association of America, forms October 14 Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 5th World Series, 1st rematch October 14 Smallest crowd at World Series, 6,210 fans see Cubs beat Tigers October 16 Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux October 18 Belgium annexes Congo Free State October 20 King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium October 24 Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game" October 31 4th Olympic games ends in London November 3 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan November 4 Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in New York City November 6 Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni," premieres in St. Petersburg November 7 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy November 10 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room November 14 Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light November 14 Oscar Strauss' musical "Der tapfere Soldat," premieres in Vienna November 16 Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting New York's Metropolitan Opera November 22 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0 November 25 Dorando Pietri (It) beats Johnny Hayes (U.S.) in MSG marathon by 60 yds November 28 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna Pa December 2 Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3 December 3 Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A, premieres December 4 Haiti's president-General Alexis Nord flees from military coup December 5 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh) December 11 Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden," premieres December 16 1st credit union in U.S. forms (Manchester NH) December 25 Jack Johnson KO Tommy Burns and becomes 1st black heavyweight champ December 26 Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title December 28 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die December 28 Messina, Italy struck by an earthquake (nearly 80,000 died) December 29 Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc December 30 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers outscore Edmonton, 13-10 in 2 game set |
Abraham H. Maslow 1908 - 1970 Alistair Cooke 1908 - Amy Vanderbilt 1908 - 1974 Arthur J. Goldberg 1908 - 1990 Bette Davis 1908 - 1989 Cesare Pavese 1908 - 1950 Claude Levi-Strauss 1908 - Edward R. Murrow 1908 - 1965 Edward Teller 1908 - 2003 Estee Lauder 1908 - Frank Leahy 1908 - 1973 George Kimble 1908 - Harry A. Blackmun 1908 - Jacob Bronowski 1908 - 1974 Jimmy Stewart 1908 - 1997 John Kenneth Galbraith 1908 - Joshua Logan 1908 - Lawrence Welk 1908 - 1992 Leo Rosten 1908 - 1997 Louis L'Amour 1908 - 1988 Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 - 1973 Milton Berle 1908 - 2002 Quentin Crisp 1908 - 1999 Rex Harrison 1908 - 1990 Richard Wright 1908 - 1960 Robert Morley 1908 - 1992 Rosalind Russell 1908 - 1976 Simone de Beauvoir 1908 - 1986 Theodore Roethke 1908 - 1963 Thurgood Marshall 1908 - 1993 William Randolph Hearst, Jr. 1908 - William Saroyan 1908 - 1981 Yousuf Karsh 1908 - 2002 Mary Hemingway 1908 - Eddie Albert 1908 - Lefty Gomez 1908 - Paul Brown 1908 - 1991 Ethel Merman 1908 - 1984 Carl Albert 1908 - Rene Daumal 1908 - 1944 Greer Garson 1908 - 1996 Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908 - Pauline Frederick 1908 - 1990 Carole Lombard 1908 - 1942 John Holt 1908 - 1967 Osbert Lancaster 1908 - 1980 Grover Cleveland 1837 - 1908 Ouida 1839 - 1908 Eduard Zeller 1814 - 1908 |
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