President:
Pres: William H. Taft
Pres: Woodrow Wilson inaugurated
General
- Business: Congress passes Underwood Tariff
US Congress determines that corporations are beginning to dominate education and social services
John D Rockerfeller founds Rockefeller Institute with grant of 100 million
- Entertainment: Wild West Show of Buffalo Bill's bankrupts – Cody must work in circus to pay bills
Annie Oakley retires – somewhat
Charlie Chaplin makes first film
- Finance: Depression in US until WWI
Federal Reserve Act - Pujo committee appointed by Congress investigates banking industry spurs creation of Federal Reserve System supposedly to stabilize banks
- Law: 16th amendment - Income tax
17th amendment - Direct election of senators
- Sports: Walter Hagen appears on US golf scene
- Technology: Henry Ford invents assembly line - reduces creation of the Model T to 93 minutes
- Death: Harriet Tubman
East
- New Jersey: Possible tsunami
- New York: Armory Show introduces Continental Modernism
Woolworth Building designed
Grand Central Terminal opens
Binghamton Clothing Company fire kills 50 and burns many more - not Triangle Shirt Factory in 1911
Irene and Vernon Castle the dancers make debut
Armory Show introduces Postimpressionism and cubism
- Pennsylvania: 15 Philadelphia children intentionally infected with tuberculin – blindness in some
Midwest
- General: Great Lakes region – storms kill over 250
- Ohio: Dayton flood
- Nebraska: Tornado hits Omaha and Tornado forms over Easter party
South
- Texas: Galveston hurricane
West and Pacific
- Colorado: Violent strikes at Rockefeller-owned coal fields in Ludlow
- New Mexico: Dawson mine disaster kills 263