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January 1 - British Harry Bensley leaves for his would-be trip around the world pushing a pram and wearing an iron mask, beginning from the Trafalgar Square

January 1 - A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time

January 8 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.

January 11 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created

January 12 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.

January 15 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek-letter organization by and for Black college women is established.

January 21 - New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for aliens to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.

January 24 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement

February 1 - King Carlos I of Portugal and Crown Prince Luis shot in Lisbon

February 11 - Australia regain The Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.

February 12 - Start of the first around-the-world car race, from New York to Paris.

February 18 - Japanese immigration to USA forbidden

February 25 - Los Angeles. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University) founded.

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March 25 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Clube Atlético Mineiro founded in Minas Gerais, today one of biggest clubs in Brazil

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April 19 - The Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, designed by Jens Jensen (landscape architect), opens to the public for the first time.

April 21 - Friedrich A Cook's claimed date to have reached North Pole

May 10 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia).

May 26 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.

June 30 - The Tunguska impact event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs in Siberia.

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July 6 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic North Pole.

July 11-12 night - Explosion of a ship Amalthea in the Malmö harbor in Sweden, housing 80 British strikebreakers. 1 dead, 20 injured.

July 13 - Women compete in modern Olympic Games for the first time.

July 19 - Feyenoord Rotterdam was founded.

July 22 - Albert Fisher establishes the Fisher Body Company to manufacture carriage and automobile bodies.

July 26 - United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

August 15 - Winston Churchill is ordained as a Druid in England.

August 24 - After an intense power struggle, Abd al-Aziz IV, sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafiz. (Date of proclamation)

September 8 - Danish minister of Justice, Alberti, is revealed to be an embezzler

September 23 - The University of Alberta is founded in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

September 27 - Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.

October - The Bosnian Crisis begins after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.

October 5 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar

October 14 - The Chicago Cubs win the World Series by defeating the Detroit Tigers 2-0 in the fifth game. They haven't won the World Series since.

November 3 - William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election

November 6 - Western bandits Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia, after being surrounded by a large group of Mexican soldiers. There are many rumours to the contrary however, and the grave sites are unmarked.

November 13 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Australia.

November 14 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected mayor (of Aldeburgh)

December 5 - Sunderland F.C. set a record for an away victory when they humiliate local rivals Newcastle United 9-1 at St. James Park.

December 28 - A 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys Messina, Sicily and rocks Calabria killing over 75,000.

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First Zionist colony in Palestine

British suffragettes begin a campaign for female suffrage

Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Léopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in Congo, which is his personal colony

The Children's Encyclopedia first published

Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of FBI, founded

Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks

Isak Saba, the first Sami in the Norwegian parliament

Henri Matisse open his own art academy

Serial killer Belle Guinness disappears in Laporte

Young Turks revolution in the Ottoman Empire

Change of Emperor of Qing Dynasty from Guangxu Emperor of China (1875-1908) to Henry Puyi (1909-1911)

A 40,000-year-old Neandertal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.

The Child Labour Act of Ontario is passed.

The Irish Universities Act, 1908 is passed and creates the National University of Ireland at Dublin and the Queen's University of Belfast.

First Ideal Home Exhibition held.

De Meester's Dutch government resigns.

Discovery of oil deposits near the Persian city of Abadan.

The Young Turks rebel and force sultan Abd al-Hamid II to adhere to the constitution of 1876.

The University of the Philippines is founded at Manila.

First year of rugby league in Australia

American Temperance University closes.

Panathinaikos, the Athenian sports club, is founded.

Club Union becomes Chivas Guadalajara

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January 8 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)

January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (d. 1986)

January 12 - Jean Delannoy, French film director

January 14 - Russ Columbo, singer, bandleader, and composer (d. 1934)

January 15 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003)

January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer (d. 1997)

January 27 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, American jazz musician (d. 1954)

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February 1 - George Pál, Hungarian-born animator (d. 1980)

February 5 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969)

February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (d. 1999)

February 12 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler, Olympic medalist (d. 1982)

February 17 - Red Barber, American baseball announcer and sports journalist (d. 1992)

February 22 - John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)

February 23 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)

February 26 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)

February 26 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)

February 29 - Balthus, French painter (d. 2001)

February 29 - Dee Brown, American writer and historian (d. 2002)

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March 2 - Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)

March 4 - T.R.M. Howard, Civil Rights leader, surgeon (d. 1976)

March 5 - Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)

March 7 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)

March 12 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)

March 13 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2002)

March 17 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)

March 20 - Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (d. 1985)

March 20 - Frank Stanton, American Businessman

March 22 - Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)

March 25 - Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (d. 1980)

March 25 - David Lean, English film director (d. 1991)

March 29 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)

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April 1 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)

April 2 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)

April 4 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American Author

April 5 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)

April 5 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)

April 5 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986)

April 6 - John P. Davies, American diplomat (d. 1999)

April 7 - Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, musician (d. 1976)

April 15 - Eden Ahbez, American musician (d. 1995)

April 20 - Lionel Hampton, American musician and bandleader (d. 2002)

April 25 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)

April 28 - Oskar Schindler, Austria-Hungary industrialist (d. 1974)

April 29 - Jack Williamson, American science fiction author

April 30 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d. 1970)

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May 5 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)

May 7 - Max Grundig, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1989)

May 8 - Cristian Vasile, Romanian singer (d. 1974)

May 19 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)

May 20 - James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)

May 23 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)

May 28 - Ian Fleming, English writer (d. 1964)

May 30 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

May 30 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)

May 31 - Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)

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June 12 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina

June 18 - Bud Collyer, American voice actor and game show host (d. 1969)

June 20 - Billy Werber, American Baseball Player

June 21 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (d. 1932)

June 24 - Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942)

June 29 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)

June 30 - Winston Graham, English writer (d. 2003)

July 12 - Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002)

July 25 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)

July 27 - Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)

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August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)

August 5 - Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)

August 9 - A. I. Bezzerides, American screenwriter

August 16 - William Maxwell, American novelist and editor (d. 2000)

August 20 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager (d. 2005)

August 21 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)

August 22 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)

August 23 - Hannah Frank, Scottish artist and sculptor

August 27 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)

August 27 - Lyndon Johnson, President of the United States (d. 1973)

August 28 - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, artist, and educator (d. 1996)

August 28 - Robert Merle, French writer (d. 2004)

August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (d. 1996)

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September 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)

September 6 - Louis Essen, English physicist (d. 1997)

September 6 - Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (d. 1982)

September 7 - Paul Brown, American football coach (d. 1991)

September 7 - Michael E. DeBakey, American physician

September 13 - Mae Questel, American actress (d. 1998)

September 15 - Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)

September 19 - Paul Bénichou, French intellectual (d. 2001)

September 21 - Charles Upham, New Zealand soldier (d. 1994)

September 26 - SK Brann, Norwegian football (Soccer) team founded

September 29 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)

September 30 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 1974)

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October 6 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d.1942)

October 14 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)

October 14 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)

October 15 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (d. 2006)

October 16 - Enver Hoxha, dictator of Albania (d. 1985)

October 19 - Sydney MacEwan, Scottish singer (d. 1990)

October 19 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)

October 22 - John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)

October 23 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)

October 25 - Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004)

October 28 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (d. 1995)

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November 2 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)

November 4 - Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2005)

November 12 - Harry Blackmun, American judge (d. 1999)

November 16 - Sœur Emmanuelle, French nun

November 18 - Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001)

November 20 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (d. 2004)

November 23 - Nelson S. Bond, American Science Fiction Writer

November 26 - Charles Forte, Scottish Businessman

November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born anthropologist

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December 4 - Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)

December 6 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003)

December 10 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (d. 1992)

December 11 - Elliott Carter, American composer

December 11 - Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese Film Director

December 17 - Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)

December 23 - Sol Carter, American Baseball Player

December 31 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter (d. 2005)

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Jorge Oteiza, Spanish painter(d. 2003)

George Rodger, British photojournalist (d. 1995)

Carl Stuart Hamblen, American musician and Presidential candidate (d. 1989)

Frances Ford Seymour, American socialite (d. 1950)

Howard Cary, American engineer (d. 1991)

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January 25 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)

February 1 - King Charles of Portugal (b. 1863)

April 20 - Henry Chadwick, English-born baseball writer and historian (b. 1824)

April 22 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)

May 26 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Qadianism (b. 1835)

June 21 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)

June 24 - Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837)

July 5 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)

July 10 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn composer (b. 1839)

July 20 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835)

July 22 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)

August 25 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)

August 26 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville and theater impresario (b. 1837)

September 20 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)

October 30 - Caroline Astor, American socialite (b. 1830)

November 14 - The Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)

November 15 - Empress Dowager Cixi, ruler of China (b. 1835)

Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (b. 1861)

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February 14 - Lee De Forest & Nora Stanton Blatch

February 28 - King Ferdinand & Eleanor Reuss

April 7 - Knud Kristensen & Else Christensen

June 13 - Carl Sandburg & Lilian Steichen

July 19 - Shoeless Joe Jackson & Katherine Wynn

August 6 - Roscoe Arbuckle & Minta Durfee

August 8 - Ty Cobb & Charlotte Lombard

August 30 - Harry Solter & Florence Lawrence

September 12 - Winston Churchill & Clementine Churchill

November 20 - Vilhelm Buhl & Thyra Schmidt

November 25 - Will Rogers & Betty Blake

December 22 - Sybil Thorndike & Lewis Casson

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Physics - Gabriel Lippmann

Chemistry - Ernest Rutherford

Medicine - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich

Literature - Rudolf Christoph Eucken

Peace - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer