• Fifteen million children in the US attend public schools.
Beyond the basics, there is little consensus concerning what they should be
taught. (North America)
• An essay written by Theodore Roosevelt praising football is published
around the time of the death of a football player at Lake Forest University in
Illinois who is killed during a game. (Midwest/US)
• A deadly hurricane ravages Galveston, Texas, killing between 6,000
and 8,000. (Southwest/US)
• In Atlanta a controversy erupts when members of the Grand Army of the
Republic protest the use of school books that show the Federal government in a
bad light and include a history of the Civil War sympathetic to the Confederate
cause. (Southeast/US)
• Fourteen hundred kilos of opium, worth nearly $20,000, is seized as it is
being brought into harbor at Havana, Cuba. (Central America/Caribbean)
• Coal miners, led by John Mitchell, stage a massive strike in Shenandoah,
Pennsylvania. (Northeast/US)
• The United States offers to purchase the Danish West Indies to use
as a naval coaling station. The Danish Parliament holds out for a higher offer.
The deal is not completed until 1917. (North America)
• Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright conduct flight experiments at
Kittyhawk, North Carolina. (Southeast/US)
• The British Commonwealth of Australia is declared official and joins a
federal union of six British colonies. (Australia)
• Lack of seating space forces Atlanta public schools to turn away some 400
students. (Southeast/US)
• Hennepin County, Minnesota, holds the US's first direct primary.
(Midwest/US)
• With a record of 82 wins and 54 losses, the Brooklyn Dodgers
capture the National League pennant. (Northeast/US)
• Working in Cuba, Army Surgeon Dr. Walter Reed conducts experiments
determining that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. Reed's work
confirms a theory first proposed by Dr. Carlos Finlay of Havana in 1881.
(Central America/Caribbean)
• The Duke of Abruzzi's polar expedition returns to Norway and announces to
the world that it had reached a destination at 86 degrees, 33 minutes north
latitude, the highest point reached to date. (Europe)
• In Bradford, England, Sir William H. Preece announces at the British
Association for the Advancement of Science that he has successfully conveyed
audible speech 6 to 8 miles without the use of wires. (Europe)
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