Colorado becomes first state to grant women voting rights by popular referendum.
Sir Mortimer Durand draws the border between British colonial India and Afghanistan now known as the Durand Line. The border bisects the region settled by Pashtuns and is widely seen as an ethnic dispersal gerrymander.
Hawaiiam Queen Liliuokalani surrenders Hawaii to the United States under protest.
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization or Вътрешна македонска революционна организация or Внатрешна Македонска Револуционерна Организација, commonly known in English as I.M.R.O. is organized.
First Japanese language school is established in the U.S. in Kohala, Hawaii.
New Zealand becomes the first country to grant women the right to vote in national elections.
Colorado becomes the third American state to grant women the right to vote.
First Italian agricultural settlers arrive in Eritrean central highlands.
George Griffith first conceives of the Air-to-Surface Missile in The Angel of the Revolution.
I.M.R.O., Macedonian nationalist and terrorist organization founded. becomes the model for all future transnational terrorist organizations like the Irgun and al-Qaeda.
Federal Railway Safety Appliances Act passed in the United States.
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August 10: Future Louisiana Governor and U.S. Senator Huey Long is born in Winfield, Louisiana.
