| January 1 | Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4) |
| January 2 | 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50) |
| January 5 | Colombia recognizes Panama's independence |
| January 9 | Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south |
| January 14 | Coop. Far. Central Management forms |
| January 16 | British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole |
| January 16 | David, Mawson and Mackay reach south magnetic pole |
| January 19 | Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in New York City |
| January 22 | Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich |
| January 23 | 1st radio rescue at sea |
| January 25 | Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden |
| January 28 | U.S. military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time |
| February 1 | U.S. Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens |
| February 2 | Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris |
| February 8 | France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco |
| February 9 | 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) |
| February 9 | 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio |
| February 12 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms |
| February 12 | Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter and Wijnkoop) |
| February 12 | Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6) |
| February 16 | 1st subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City |
| February 16 | Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary |
| February 18 | Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps |
| February 21 | John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London |
| February 22 | Great White Fleet, 1st U.S. fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia |
| February 23 | Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet |
| March 1 | 1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota |
| March 2 | Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands |
| March 3 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3 |
| March 4 | President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm |
| March 4 | U.S. prohibits interstate transportation of game birds |
| March 6 | Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna |
| March 10 | Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title |
| March 14 | Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms |
| March 18 | Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast |
| March 21 | Moran and MacFarland (U.S.) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin) |
| March 26 | August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti," premieres in Stockholm |
| March 30 | Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens |
| March 31 | Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years |
| March 31 | Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his 1st time |
| April 6 | 1st credit union forms in US |
| April 6 | North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson |
| April 12 | Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens |
| April 14 | Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London |
| April 15 | Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo |
| April 15 | New York Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers |
| April 18 | Joan of Arc declared a saint |
| April 19 | 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of New Hampshire in 2:53:36.8 |
| April 24 | Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds |
| April 27 | Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown |
| May 1 | Netherlands begins unity with Belgium |
| May 2 | Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs |
| May 3 | 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2 |
| May 7 | Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv) |
| May 8 | Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6) |
| May 8 | Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31) |
| May 10 | Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 inning |
| May 12 | 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8 |
| May 13 | Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands |
| May 17 | White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks |
| May 19 | Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title |
| May 22 | 1st San Francisco fireboat, David Scannell, launched |
| May 24 | Bristol University granted Royal Charter |
| May 29 | Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run |
| May 30 | Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv |
| May 31 | 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, New York City) |
| June 1 | Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle |
| June 2 | 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6 |
| June 7 | Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens |
| June 12 | "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1 |
| June 16 | 1st U.S. airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 |
| June 16 | Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals |
| June 18 | Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women |
| June 20 | 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring) |
| June 23 | Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections |
| June 24 | 15th U.S. Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood Golf Club New Jersey |
| June 25 | George Sargent wins U.S. Open golf tournament |
| June 26 | 23rd U.S. Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (60 61) |
| June 26 | Victoria and Albert Museum opens in London |
| June 27 | 23rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (60 61) |
| June 27 | Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Netherlands (Belgium count De Lambert) |
| June 28 | 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens |
| June 30 | Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title |
| July 8 | 1st pro baseball game, minor league, played under lights |
| July 12 | 16th Amendment approved, power to tax incomes |
| July 14 | Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns |
| July 15 | Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park home runs |
| July 16 | Detroit and Washington play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings |
| July 19 | Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play |
| July 24 | Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates |
| July 25 | France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel |
| July 27 | Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s |
| July 30 | John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
| July 30 | Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army |
| July 31 | Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
| August 1 | British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed |
| August 2 | 1st Lincoln head pennies minted |
| August 2 | Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers |
| August 4 | Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment |
| August 7 | U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny |
| August 10 | Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins |
| August 11 | Liner "Arapahoe" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call |
| August 11 | SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC |
| August 11 | Warren Bardsley (136 and 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test |
| August 19 | Indianapolis 500 race track opens |
| August 24 | Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal |
| August 26 | Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 and 13-67 for Middlesex vs. Gloucs |
| August 26 | Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn and 31 in a single day |
| August 27 | Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game |
| August 29 | AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m |
| August 29 | World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins |
| August 31 | A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball |
| August 31 | Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2) |
| September 2 | English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill |
| September 6 | Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier |
| September 9 | Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title |
| September 11 | Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet |
| September 13 | Ty Cobb clinches AL home run title with his 9th home run (all inside-the-park) |
| September 18 | Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det |
| September 25 | Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in N.Y. |
| September 27 | 29th U.S. Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (61 62 57 16 61) |
| October 2 | 1st rugby match (Twickenham) |
| October 8 | Chicago Cubs beat New York Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant |
| October 9 | Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game |
| October 14 | Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series |
| October 16 | Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| October 16 | Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series |
| October 18 | Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m |
| November 4 | Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich) |
| November 7 | Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama |
| November 11 | Construction of Navy base at Pearl Harbor begins |
| November 11 | J. M. Synge's "Tinker's Wedding," premieres in London |
| November 13 | 259 miners die in a fire at St. Paul Mine at Cherry Ill |
| November 13 | Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
| November 16 | EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms |
| November 18 | U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya |
| November 19 | Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption |
| November 20 | Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game |
| November 23 | 7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec) |
| November 23 | Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes |
| December 1 | 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa |
| December 1 | 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef |
| December 4 | 1st CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6 |
| December 7 | Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite) |
| December 8 | Bird banding society found |
| December 9 | 1st U.S. monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, New York) |
| December 11 | Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000 |
| December 11 | Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York City |
| December 15 | Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League |
| December 16 | U.S. pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office |
| December 17 | Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels |
| December 21 | 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California) |
| December 21 | Clyde Fitch' "City," premieres in New York City |
| December 21 | University of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole |
| December 23 | Albert becomes king of Belgians |
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