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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The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs decreed that baptism ceremonies could not be performed outdoors without a permit, because they qualified as a "religious procession".
While this seems odd, a person must keep in mind the Russian crown's close association with the Russian Orthodox Church. While the overwhelming majority of Russians were baptized, in church, in that faith, there was a relatively significant Russian Anabaptist community made up of individuals who had immigrated into Russia or whose ancestors had.
This is no longer true, as the overwhelming majority have emigrated to elsewhere.
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Great American illustrator, author and sculptor, Frederic Remington, died at age 48 of a burst appendix. He was operated upon, but it was too late.
Remington's role as a chronicler of the American West has been enduring.
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The Federal Court in Boston ruled that Armenians were white, and therefore eligible for citizenship. Some had been denied naturalization on the basis they were "Asiatic".
Japanese Protestant Christian Toyohiko Kagawa (賀川 豊彦) established a Christian mission and social welfare organization that still exists.
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The USS Utah was launched.
She'd be lost at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Fifty eight of her crew died as a result. She was not recovered and remains in the harbor near Ford Island.
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A contingent of US Marines arrived at Corinto, Nicaragua, on the USS Buffalo with orders to invade it it proved necessary to protect US interests.
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With American warships approaching the Nicaraguan coast, José Santos Zelaya resigned as President of the unfairly threatened country. Zelaya was succeeded by José Madriz, who later resigned under American pressure.
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The Kaga Maru departed Yokohama with 2,000 cherry blossom trees for the U.S.
The National Geographic Society acknowledged Robert E. Peary as the first to reach the North Pole.
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The widowed King Leopold II of Belgium married his mistress Caroline Lacroix, and the mother of his two sons, Lucien and Philippe, in a religious ceremony.
The marriage was not recognized under Belgian law, and Lucien was ineligible to succeed to the throne. His nephew Albert became king.
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