Henry Bacon Designs Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
The American Robert H. Goddard Begins His Rocketry Experiments
E. C. Kendall Prepares Pure Thyrosin for Treatment of Thyroid Deficiencies
U.S. Court Decides Patent Suit on Airplanes in Favor of Wright Brothers Against Glenn Curtiss
Cape Cod Canal Opened between Cape Cod and Buzzard's Bay
Panama Canal Opened
Yale Bowl Opened, Seating 80,000
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) founded
E. R. Burroughs: "Tarzan of the Apes"
J. H. Jeans: "Radiation and the Quantum Theory"
Fertilization Through Peat Discovered by Bottomley