istoryworld
Events relating to america
Gideons International place their first bible in a hotel bedroom, in Montana, USA
William Howard Taft, the Republican candidate, is elected to follow Roosevelt as president
US boxer Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight champion when he knocks out Tommy Burns in Australia
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded in response to two lynchings in Illinois
Leo Baekeland announces his discovery of Bakelite, calling it 'the material of a thousand uses'
Mary Pickford begins her film career at sixteen, when she is hired by D.W. Griffith
Jack London publishes his most autobiographical novel, Martin Eden
Sea captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier unveils a plaque in the Arctic Archipelago, declaring that all the islands belong to Canada
President Taft builds the first Oval Office, in the new west wing of the White House
US physicist Robert A. Millikan devises an oil drop experiment that determines the charge of an electron
The Selig Polyscope Company sets up the first film studio in the Los Angeles region, at Edendale
President Taft sends marines to Nicaragua after the government there executes two US citizens
Joshua Slocum, the most famous sailor of the day, vanishes on another lone voyage
D.W. Griffith directs In Old California, the first film shot in the California village of Hollywood
Lee De Forest broadcasts Enrico Caruso live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, but with mixed success owing to the poor quality
The wife of Harvey Crippen, an American doctor working in north London, vanishes mysteriously
Chicago cardiologist James Herrick publishes the first account of the cells causing sickle-cell anaemia
US geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan establishes the chromosome theory of heredity through his study of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
The US Congress passes the Mann White Slave Traffic Act, an attempt to control prostitution
A revolution begins in Mexico that will last ten years before being resolved
The Gimbel family open their flagship department store in Manhattan
Elizabeth Arden opens her first beauty salon on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan
Giacomo Puccini's opera Girl of the Golden West premieres in New York
Eugene B. Ely lands his Curtiss biplane on the US cruiser Pennsylvania, pointing the way to the future development of the aircraft carrier
The lost Inca city of Machu Picchu is reached by US archaeologist Hiram Bingham
