Briggs & Stratton started manufacturing engines.
Georgian Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili, father of Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, know to history as Joseph Stalin, died of cirrhosis of the liver.
He was a cobbler by trade, and had hoped his son would be as well.
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Howard Hughes Sr was issued a patent for the rotary bit that would revolutionize petroleum drilling and found the fortune of the Hughes economic empire.
Hughes had originally been a lawyer.
After leaving Harvard in '94, I found myself in the Law School of the Iowa State University. It was my father's wish that I succeed him in his practice. Too impatient to await the course of graduation, I passed the examination before the Supreme Court of Iowa and began the practice of law. I soon found the law a too-exacting mistress for a man of my talent, and I quit her between dark and dawn, and have never since been back. I decided to search for my fortune under the surface of the earth.
Howard Hughes Sr., 1912.
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"The Isles", Lake Hopatcong, N.J. August 9, 1909.
Alabama became the first state to ratify the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution providing for an income tax.
The U.S. mint halted the production of the Lincoln head VDB marked pennies, with the initials of designer Victor David Brenner, on them. 22,350,000 of the pennies had been put into circulation.
Production had only been ongoing for one week.
He was executed on August 26, 1944, for his role in the plot.
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I received an unexpected and surprising of how much things have changed even in my own lifetime this week, and in the kitchen at that.The first native Australian saint, St. Mary Helen MacKillop, the co-founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, died in North Sydney, Australia,
Nearly the entire upper elements of the US Government went on vacation. President Taft arrived at the "Summer White House" in Beverly, Massachusetts. Vice-President Sherman went to his home in Utica, New York. House Speaker Cannon went home to Danville, Illinois.
Only two cabinet officers remained in Washington, D.C.
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A building in Deadwood South Dakota that was once a Hudson and Terraplane dealer, two extinct brands of automobiles.The United States Army accepted the delivery of a Wright Military Flyer.
The Wright brothers were hired at the same time to train the first two pilots, Lts. Frank P. Lahm and Frederick E. Humphreys
It was just six years after the first flight, and less than a decade before airplanes would become a major weapon of war.
Lincoln penneys went into circulation. The 1909 penny had the equivalent of $.35 spending power in contemporary dollars.
It replaced the Indian head penny that had been in circulation since 1859.
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The Tragic Week, "Semana Tragica" ended as the Spanish government restored order in Barcelona and other areas of Catalonia. The violent confrontations between the Spanish army and anarchists, freemasons, socialists and republicans of Barcelona and other cities in Catalonia, Spain were in opposition to the Second Rif War and the call up of reservists.
Called up reservists were often the only means of support for their families, whereas the wealthy could hire substitutes.
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President Taft established Mukuntuweap National Monument in what is now Zion National Park.
General Motors acquired Cadillac.
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The first baseball game in Korea was held. It was a match between students and American missionaries. The students had learned the game in Japan.
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A Casper Star Tribune article that sort of sheds light on some of the topics discussed here:
http://www.trib.com/articles/2009/07/19 ... 0157b9.txt
This article discusses an entire town disappearing. But it misses part of the reason for that. The town was only a few miles from another, that being the town of Midwest. Midwest is just about four or five miles from another, Edgerton. And Midwest is only about 50 miles from Casper. So the town in the article was probably only about 30 or 40 miles from Casper.
When it was founded, travel conditions would have made the town probably both necessary and viable. But by the 30s, when it disappeared, it was really redundant and inefficient, it's role having been taken over by older and slightly larger Midwest.
Today, Midwest and Edgerton are sort of shadows of their former selves as well.
A vote of no confidence followed, and the sitting government failed.
Clemenceau, of course, would rise again and return to office in 1917.
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Neal Ball of the Cleveland Indians made the first unassisted triple play in major league history.
Ball played major league ball from 1907 to 1913, when he was returned to the minors in which he played until 1924. He died at age 71 in 1957.
The Hudson Terminal, the largest underground station in New York City, opened.
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The House of Representatives passed the 16th Amendment. The Senate had already done so.
Korea turned prison administration over to Japan in what was a step towards full annexation of the Hermit Kingdom.
President Taft withdrew and therefore protected the Oregon Caves National Monument.
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Two years before the fateful revolution of 1911, the United States and Qing China entered into an agreement which allowed select Chinese students to enroll at American universities.
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The Qing Dynasty had been in existence since 1644. That would come to an end in 1912. China has pretty much been in some sort of political mess since then, although it certainly had plenty of problems before that.
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The first baseball game played under lights happened in a match between the Grand Rapids Team and the Zanesville Team of the minor league Central League.
British Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone met with eight suffragist leaders by way of a request of King Edward VII.
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Undergraduate student T. E. Lawrence left Britain for his first trip to the Middle East, bound for Syria and Palestine to study the influence of the Crusades on European military architecture. The trip would later produce the book Crusader Castles, which came out the following year.
Some photos of agricultural child labor in Maryland were taken, captions are original.
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Albert Einstein resigned from his job at the Patent Office in Zürich in order to pursue the full-time study of physics, proving that there are times in which you should indeed quit your job.
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