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Galveston hurricane leaves an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 dead (Sept. 8).According to the census, the nation's population numbers nearly 76 million.
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Theodore Roosevelt's second inauguration
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Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th president
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Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, providing for the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislatures
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of her husband.
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Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
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World War II: U.S. declares its neutrality in European conflict.
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Korean War: Cold war conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces on Korean Peninsula. North Korean communists invaded South Korea.
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American soldiers kill 300 Vietnamese villagers in My Lai massacre.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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President Carter signs treaty agreeing to turn control of Panama Canal over to Panama.
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Iraq accepts terms of UN ceasefire, marking an end of war.
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School shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., leaves 14 students (including the 2 shooters) and 1 teacher dead and 23 others wounded.
