Orville and Wilbur Wright were presented with a Congressional Gold Medal by Gen. James Allen, Chief of the Signal Corps, on behalf of President Taft, for their aeronautic feats. At the same time, Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio presented the brothers with the Ohio Medal, and Mayor Edward E. Burkhardt with the City of Dayton Medal.
William Lorimer was sworn in as U.S. Senator from Illinois.
His tenure would be brief. After the Senate determined that the Illinois legislative vote, which is how Senators were then determined, had been tainted by corruption, he was unseated by the Senate on July 14. This helped give rise to the 17th Amendment providing for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
Lorimer was a Republican and if this happened today, he'd declare undying allegiance to Donald Trump and Republicans in the Senate would declare that this was some sort of horrific tragedy.
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