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Top Song(s)
• Peerless Quartet - Let Me Call You Sweetheart
• Victor Light Opera Co - Gems from Naughty Marietta
• American Quartet - Oh You Beautiful Doll
• Will Oakland - I Love The Name of Mary
• Arthur Clough - Down by the Old Mill Stream
Top Film(s)
• Dante's Inferno
• Baron Munchausen's Dream
• The Manicure Lady
• The Lonedale Operator
• The Last Drop of Water
Best Selling Book(s)
• Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
• The Innocence of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton
• Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
• Fanny's First Play - George Bernard Shaw
• The Story Girl - L.M. Montgomery
Famous Deaths
• February 8 – Joaquin Costa, Spanish politician, lawyer, economist and historian.
• March 1 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• March 11 – Theotime Blanchard, Canadian farmer, teacher, merchant and politician.
• May 9 – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, American Unitarian minister and abolitionist.
• May 29 - Stephanus Jacobus du Toit, South African nationalist, theologian, journalist and politician.
• June 16 – Joshua H. Berkey, American publisher, minister and political activist.
• June 20 – Ghazaros Aghayan, Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure.
• July 11 – Laura Jacinta Rittenhouse, American temperance activist and juvenile literature author.
• August 6 – Florentino Ameghino, Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist.
• September 4 – John Francon Williams, Welsh-born journalist, writer, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor.
Medical/Science/Technology
• The Nakhla meteorite (from Mars) lands in the area of Alexandria, Egypt, purportedly killing a dog.
• An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
• American explorer Hiram Bingham III rediscovers the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, Peru.
• Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four become the first people to reach the South Pole.
• Eugen Bleuler expands on his definition of schizophrenia.
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers the phenomenon of superconductivity.
• The first Solvay Congress of physicists convenes.
• Charles F. Kettering files a United States patent for an electric starter motor.
• John Joseph Rawlings files a United Kingdom patent for a wall plug.
• The Lewis automatic light machine gun is invented by United States Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis.
Political Events
• January 17 – Emmet O'Neal is sworn in as the 34th governor of Alabama replacing B. B. Comer.
• January 26 – The United States and Canada announce the successful negotiation of their first reciprocal trade agreement.
• January 29 - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
• March 1 - Isabella Goodwin appointed first US woman detective, NYC.
• March 11 - Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
• April 11 - The UK Parliament introduce a Irish home rule bill, granting Ireland its own bicameral parliament.
• May 15 – The U.S. Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• June 4 - State of Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law.
• August 8 – Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435.
• September 29 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
National Events
• January 6 - New Mexico becomes 47th state of the Union.
• January 18 – Eugene Burton Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania.
• February 14 - Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state.
• March 25 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146.
• March 29 – The United States Army formally adopts the M1911 pistol as its standard sidearm.
• April 30 – Sparks from a burning hayshed ignite the Great Fire of 1911, destroying much of downtown Bangor, Maine.
• September 25 – Groundbreaking for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, begins.
• September 30 – Austin Dam breaks, wiping out the town of Austin, Pennsylvania.
• October 24 – Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
• November 3 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T.
Worldwide Events
• January 3 - An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people.
• February 12 - China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
• March 5 - Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die.
• March 19 – International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time across Europe.
• April 4 - Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields in Siberia.
• April 14 - RMS Titanic, the world's largest ocean liner, hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland.
• April 18 – SS Lusitania, en route from Mozambique to Lisbon, strikes Bellows Rock just off Cape Point and sinks.
• June 14 – RMS Olympic departs Southampton, England, for her maiden voyage, with a first call at Cherbourg, France.
• August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia.
• December 29 – Sun Yat-sen is elected Provisional President of the Republic of China.