| U.
S. President: William Howard Taft |
| Vice-President: James
S. Sherman |
| U.
S. Population: 93,863,000 |
|
Federal Budget: $690,000,000 |
| First-Class
stamp: $0.02 |
| Kentucky
Derby Champion: Meridian |
| Sun
Yat-sen became President of China |
| Ray
Harroun won the 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race |
| Madame
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for chemistry |
| World
Series: Philadelphia A's defeated N. Y. Giants (4-2) |
| Roald
Amundsen became first man to reach the South Pole |
| RMS
Titanic was launched at Harland & Wolff Shipyard on May 31 |
| U.
S. explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Incan ruins at Machu
Picchu |
| D.
W. Griffith released "Enoch Arden" - the fist
feature film ever made |
| The
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire killed 146 workers in New York
City |
| Future
U. S. President Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois on
February 6 |
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