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The Magna Carta is adopted in England to guarantee liberties to the English citizens. It proclaimed the basic rights and procedures. Later it would become the foundation of modern democracy.
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Christopher Columbus seeking a route to the East makes his first trip and ends up on October 12 in the Bahamas.
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Martin Luther launches the Protestant Reformation in Europe, bringing an end to the sole authority of the Catholic Church
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Slavery is introduced to American. Twenty Africans are brought by a Dutch ship to Jamestown for sale
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The Treaty of Westminster ends the conflict between the English and the Dutch. The Dutch return its colonies in America to the English.
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China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
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Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
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The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
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Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
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In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
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King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium
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Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants
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New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts
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Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
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Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
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Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
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Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602
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Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
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Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
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Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
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- Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
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Mexico ends diplomatic relations with US
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Germany declares war against Portugal
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Separation of church & state begins in USSR
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Georgia declares independence
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Winston Churchill becomes British Minister of Colonies
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After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
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French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
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NY state revokes Prohibition law
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Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
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Massacre of July 15,89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
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Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president
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Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
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- US Federal gas tax enacted
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Great dustbowl storm
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Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
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Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours
