The Mann Act, sometimes called the White Slave Traffic Act, was passed banning the transportation of a woman across state lines for "immoral purposes".
The Pickett Act became law, giving the President authority to withdraw land from public use, as necessary, for government projects.
It was Saturday, so the weeklys were out.
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President Taft signed the Enabling Act of 1910, granting the conditions for the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona to be admitted as states.
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Theodore Roosevelt was given a tape parade as a welcome back from his post Presidential trip to Africa and Europe.
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The United States Lighthouse Service was created The office of the Commissioner was transferred to the United States Coast Guard in 1935.
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Mexican troops were dispatched to suppress an uprising by the Maya Indians in Yucatán.
Byron Wyoming was incorporated.
Farm Security Administration Marion Post Wolcott was born in New Jersey.
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William Sidney Porter, known to the public as "O. Henry", one of the greatest American short story authors, died at the age of 47 from cirrhosis of the liver and diabetes.
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Mayan rebels attacked the town of Valladolid, Mexico. They killed 40 people, including local police resulting in the dispatch of the gunboat Morelos with 600 troops.
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The British Antarctic Expedition departed from London with a goal of reaching the South Pole in December..
The first European American settlements on the banks of the Iditarod were made when a steamer brought gold prospectors to within eight miles of a gold strike.
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The Union of South Africa was created from a merger of the British Cape Colony and Colony of Natal, and the conquered Boer republics.
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U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, for 1909. He pledged to donate the money "as a nucleus for a foundation to forward the cause of industrial peace".
Cartago, Costa Rica, was destroyed by an earthquake which killed more than 1,500 people.
Seventy coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Palos Coal and Coke Company at Walker County, Alabama.
The town of Hillsborough, California, was incorporated.
The U.S. Weather Bureau, predecessor to the National Weather Service, set a standing record for the highest altitude achieved by a kite 23,826 feet.
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A herd of nine escaped circus elephants rampaged through Danville, Illinois.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, died at the age of 74 at his home in Redding, Connecticut.
His last word were written, being "Give me my glasses". He wrote them to his daughter.
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Paul Ehrlich announced his discovery of what was termed "606", the first medicine that could cure syphilis.
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The Senators played the Philadelphia Athletics and won 3 to 0.
The Sperry Gyroscope Company was founded.
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Under the French confiscatory policy of disestablishment, the shrine at Lourdes was turned over to the local commune. The town council, in turn, turned it's ownership into a trust under the authority of the local Bishop.
Nouhak Phoumsavan, Pathed Lao revolutionary and President of Laos 1992 to 1998; in Ban Phalouka, Mukdahan province, Thailand.
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The Immigration Act of 1910 passed prohibiting entry into the United States of criminals, paupers, anarchists and diseased persons.
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The Rif War came to an end in Spain with Spain victorious.
The Sitka National Monument was established.
Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa was born.
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Actress Florence Lawrence became "the first movie star", after movie mogul Carl Laemmle of Independent Moving Pictures announced in advertisements that he had signed the leading lady who had only been billed as "The Biograph Girl" by Biograph Studios.
Prior to that time movie studies did not release the names of their actors.
She'd act up until her death by suicide in 1938, at age 52, at which time she was suffering from chronic illness.
The Montreal Wanderers retained the Stanley Cup.
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