An explosion at Colorado Fuel and Iron's mine at Primero, Colorado, killed 75 miners.
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Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
An explosion at Colorado Fuel and Iron's mine at Primero, Colorado, killed 75 miners.
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January 26:
The Hague Convention of 1907 governing naval warfare went into effect.
The Mann Act went into effect. The act famously addresses taking a woman across state lines for illegal or immoral purposes.
Glenn Curtis tested the first seaplane.
Carrie Nation attacked a saloon, in Butte Montana, for the last time. It was a failure.
January 27.
Wollert Konow became Prime Minister of Norway.
Thomas Crapper, toilet manufacturer, died at age 73.
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The major leagues held their annual meeting in Pittsburgh. The National League approved a resolution to add 14 games to each teams schedule, brining the total up to 168 games. The American Leauge delined so the season remained at 154 games.
The American League went to the current 162 in 1961, the National League in 1962, so we never made it to 168.
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King Alfonso of Spain took action against Spanish military figures suspected of plotting a coup.
Eliza "Lyda" Burton Conley became the first Native American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The 1910 airship sightings, sort of similar to the 2024 drone sightings, were in full bloom.
The first live radio broadcast of a musical performance took place. The New York Metropolitan Opera was broadcast. The broadcast was a demonstration to show that radio could transmit more than Morse Code.
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Bhutan became a British protectorate.
This saved the country from being subject to India, but treated it as one of India's princely states.
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President Taft fired Forestry Director Gifford Pinchot over his open criticism of Interior Secretary Richard A. Ballinger. The dispute was over whether there could be corporate control of Forest assets, such as water. Pinchot opposed that, and rightly so.
Theodore Roosevelt supported Pinchot, Taft Ballinger, which would eventually lead to the split in the GOP which opened the door for Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
Pinchot would later to on to be Governor of Pennsylvania. Ballinger returned to private life after the election of 1912 and resumed the practice of law.
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A junior high school, in Berkeley California, opened in the US for the very first time.
Two of them actually, both in Berkeley.
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President Taft opened the New Year by shaking the hands of 5,575 people visiting the White House.
Ick.
Railroads operating in the American South implemented a quota against further hiring of African Americans, pursuant to an agreement with the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, providing that "No larger percentage of Negro trainmen or yardmen will be employed on any division or in any yard than was employed on January 1, 1910".
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