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Top Song(s)
• Heidelberg Quintet - By the Beautiful Sea
• American Quartet - It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary
• Bert Williams - The Dark Town Poker Club
• Henry Burr - The Song That Stole My Heart Away
• American Quartet - Rebecca of Sunny-brook Farm
Top Film(s)
• Cabiria
• Gertie the Dinosaur
• Making a Living
• The New Janitor
• Tillie's Punctured Romance
Best Selling Book(s)
• Dubliners - James Joyce
• Tik-Tok of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Platero and I - Juan Ramón Jiménez
• Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Wassily Kandinsky
• Dear Theo - Vincent van Gogh
Famous Deaths
• January 8 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American soldier and politician, 30th governor of Kentucky.
• January 26 – Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, Argentine Roman Catholic priest and saint.
• March 12 – George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur.
• May 9 – C. W. Post, American cereal manufacturer.
• June 14 – Adlai E. Stevenson I, 23rd Vice President of the United States.
• August 6 - Maxim Sandovich, Russian Orthodox priest, martyr and saint.
• August 12 – John Philip Holland, Irish developer of the submarine.
• September 13 – Mostafa Fahmy Pasha, Egyptian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Egypt.
• September 28 – Richard Warren Sears, American founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
• November 17 – Sattar Khan, Iranian constitutional reformer and national hero.
Medical/Science/Technology
• Sinope, the outermost known moon of Jupiter, is discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Lick Observatory.
• Robert Goddard begins building rockets.
• Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin makes the first successful non-direct blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.
• Jacques Loeb publishes a paper on artificial parthenogenesis in sea urchins.
• Karl von Frisch publishes his first significant paper on honey bee behavior.
• John Joly develops a method of extracting radium and applying it in radiotherapy.
• Oxymorphone, a powerful narcotic analgesic closely related to morphine, is first developed in Germany.
• Edward Calvin Kendall isolates thyroxine.
• Ernest Rutherford suggests that the positively charged atomic nucleus contains protons.
• Willis Carrier patents an air conditioner in the United States.
Political Events
• April 21 – United States occupation of Veracruz.
• May 14 – Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation.
• June 1 – Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
• July 11 - USS Nevada, the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought" battleship, is launched.
• July 14 – The Government of Ireland Bill completes its passage through the House of Lords in the U.K.
• July 18 – The Signal Corps of the United States Army is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.
• September 26 – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• November 3 – Charles Henderson is elected the 35th governor of Alabama defeating John B. Shields.
• November 23 – U.S. troops withdraw from Veracruz. Venustiano Carranza's troops take over.
• December 17 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act.
National Events
• January 5 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
• February 12 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• February 13 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established.
• April 18 – Eccles mine disaster.
• April 20 - The Colorado National Guard attacks a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 24 people.
• July 4 – 4 people are killed in New York City when an anarchist bomb intended to kill John D. Rockefeller explodes prematurely.
• July 11 - Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut, with the Boston Red Sox.
• August 15 - The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the steamship U.S.S. Ancon.
• September 30 – The Flying Squadron is established to promote the temperance movement.
• November 28 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
Worldwide Events
• February 17 – Karl Staaff steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden in the aftermath of the Courtyard Crisis.
• February 26 – The ocean liner that will become HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched.
• March 20 - British Army officers stationed in Ireland at the Curragh Camp resign their commissions rather than be ordered to resist action.
• March 29 – Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive on Easter Island, to make the first true study of it.
• April 11 – Canadian Margaret C. MacDonald is appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band.
• April 14–18 – The first International Criminal Police Congress is held in Monaco.
• April 22 – Mexico ends diplomatic relations with the United States for the time being.
• July 28 - The official start of World War I when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia by telegram.
• August 1 - The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
• August 3 - Germany declares war on Russia's ally, France.