Count To 100,000

[CBHans1]

1896

[david]

1897

[Nornin]

1898

[Nebuchadnezzar]

1899, January 17, Al Capone is born.

[david]

1900!

[Kasu]

1901

[david]

1902

[God Keitaro]

1903

[david]

1904

[Ako]

1905

[david]

1906

[CBHans1]

1907

[Godess Naru]

1908

[Puck]

1909

[Nebuchadnezzar]

1910!

[GSDAkatsuki]

1911

• January 1 - Northern Territory is politically separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
• January 18 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
• January 21 - First Monte Carlo races (Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo).
• January 21 - The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate (modern Botswana).
• January 26 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
• January 30 - The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea, saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba

[edit] February

• February 18 - First official air mail flight took place in Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carried 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.

[edit] March

• March 1 - José Batlle y Ordóñez is elected President of Uruguay.
• March 8 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time .
• March 24 - Denmark abolishes death penalty and flogging
• March 25 - Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City - 145 dead
• March 29 - United States Army formally adopts the M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm, thus giving the gun its 1911 designation.

[edit] April

• April 6 - Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
• April 13 - Mexican revolution - Rebels take Agua Prieta along the US border. Government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader "Red" Lopez is drunk
• April 19 - Mexican Revolution - Francisco Madero's troops besiege Ciudad Juarez but general Juan J. Navarro refuses his demand of surrender
• April 27 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
• April 30 - Sparks from a burning hayshed ignite the Great Fire of 1911, destroying much of downtown Bangor, Maine.

[edit] May

• May 8 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juarez without Madero's permission. Government troops surrender May 10.
• May 15 - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.
• May 23 - Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library.
• May 24 - Mexican Revolution - Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City - about 200 dead (official claim only 40).
• May 25 - Mexican Revolution - Diaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz; on May 31 he leaves for exile in France.
• May 30 - The first Indianapolis 500-mile auto race is run. The winner is Ray Harroun in the Marmon 'Wasp' and titanic was lunched

[edit] June

• June 7 - Mexican Revolution - Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City just after a local earthquake.
• June 14 - A national seamen's strike begins in Britain.
• June 14 - RMS Olympic, sister to the RMS Titanic, begins her maiden voyage at Southampton, England.
• June 16 - A 772-gram stony meteorite struck earth in Columbia County, Wisconsin near the village of Kilbourn damaging a barn.
• June 22 - Coronation of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck at Westminster Abbey, London.
• June 28 - The Nakhla meteorite (from Mars) lands in the area of Alexandria, Egypt, purportedly killing a dog.

[edit] July

• July 1 - German Warship Panther in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers Agadir Crisis escalating pre-WW1 tensions. Subsequent climbdown rallies German militancy.
• July 24 - Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu.

July 24: Machu Picchu

[david]

umm...ok then... 1912!

[God Keitaro]

1913