The Cherry Mine Disaster saw 247 coal miners and 12 rescuers killed in the accident at Cherry Illinois. It's the third deadliest mine disaster in U.S. history.
University of Virginia freshman halfback Archer Christian was fatally injured during a game against Georgetown.
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The unspeakably brutal lynching of African American Will "Froggy" James took place in Cairo, Illinois before a crowd of 10,000 people.
Three hours later Caucasian Henry Salzner, accused of murdering his wife, was likewise lynched.
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Dr. Isidor Sadger first described narcissism as a personality disorder as part of his presentation "A Case of Multiform Perversion".
On Wisconsin was preformed by the first time by the University of Wisconsin Glee Club.
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Franklin and Elanor Roosevelt's third child, named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., died at the age of seven months. They'd use the name again for their fifth child.
Victor Hémery became the first person to drive an automobile faster than 125 miles per hour, driving a 200 PS Benz at 126 mph at the Brooklands track in England.
President Taft proclaimed the Gran Quivira National Monument, New Mexico, containing ruins Pueblo settlements dating back to the 9th Century and Spanish missions dating back to the 17th.
Exact dates for the Puebloan settlements would be impossible to determine, but construction of the missions started in 1622 and were completed in 1635. An additional church was built in 1651. The entire population migrated north in 1677, and everything was abandoned.
The expanded site today is the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.
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