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May–June – John C. Merriam leads the Saurian Expedition, a paleontological research mission in northern Nevada.
May 6 – Klamath National Forest is established.
May 10 – The 1905 Snyder, Oklahoma tornado destroys much of Snyder, Oklahoma, killing at least 97.
May 12 – Gunnison National Forest is established.
May 15 – Las Vegas, Nevada is founded when 110 acres (45 ha), in what later becomes downtown, are auctioned off.
May 29 – Sawtooth National Forest is established.
June 1–October 14 – The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition is held in Portland, Oregon, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
June 2 – Lassen National Forest is established.
June 3 – San Juan and Payette National Forest is established.
June 14 – Uncompahgre National Forest is established.
June 24 – The founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, A radical workers union, which had great impact during the first two decades of the 20th century.
July–December[]
September 5: Treaty of Portsmouth
September 11: Ninth Avenue derailment
July 11 – W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter establish the Niagara Movement, a precursor to the NAACP.
July 29 – U.S. Secretary of War William Howard Taft has talks with Prime Minister of JapanKatsura Taro. Notes from these conversations (known as the Taft–Katsura Agreement) are later found in 1924 and cause a controversy as it appears to contain U.S. recognition of Japan's claims in Korea.
September 5 – Russo-Japanese War – Treaty of Portsmouth: In New Hampshire, a treaty mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is signed by victor Japan and Russia. Russia cedes the island of Sakhalin and port and rail rights in Manchuria to Japan.
September 11 – 19 die and 48 are seriously injured when the Ninth Avenue Elevated train derails in Manhattan.
October – John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley resign from the Quorum of Twelve in protest, disputing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' stance against polygamy that was reaffirmed in the Second Manifesto (following the Reed Smoot hearings).
October 3 – Tonto National Forest is established.
October 5 – The Wright Brothers' third aeroplane (Wright Flyer III) stays in the air for 39 minutes with Wilbur piloting. This is the first aeroplane flight lasting over half an hour.
October 11 – The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the Juilliard School, opens in New York City.[2]
November 28-29 – The massive Mataafa Storm on the Great Lakes damages or destroys 29 vessels. [3]
December 30 – A bomb kills Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho; the case leads to a trial against leaders of the Western Federation of Miners.
Undated[]
Refilling of Salton Sea begins.
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are banned from the Brooklyn Public Library for setting a "bad example."
March 26 - The Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Seattle Metropolitans became the First American team to win the Stanley Cup by defeating the National Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens 3 game to 1. The Metropolitans would win their only Cup in front of their home crowd at Seattle Ice Arena
October 14 - the National League's New York Giants won their 1st World Series by defeating the American League's Philadelphia Athletics 4 games to 1 New York City's Polo Grounds
Births[]
January 3 – Anna May Wong, film actress (died 1961)
January 7 – James Simpson Jr., race car driver and politician (died 1960)
January 11 – Dorothy Hale, socialite (suicide 1938)
May 18 – Ruth Alexander, pioneering American pilot (died 1930)
June 20 – Lillian Hellman, playwright (born 1984)[6]
July 4 – Irving Johnson, sailor and author (died 1991)
July 15 – Dorothy Fields, lyricist (died 1974)
July 21 – David M. Kennedy, U.S. 60th Secretary of Treasury, 8th U.S. Representative to N.A.T.O., Special Representative of The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints (died 1996)
August 23 – Abbie Rowe, White House photographer (died 1967)
October 5 – John Hoyt, actor, editorial board member of The Yale Record (died 1991)
October 6 – Helen Wills, tennis player (died 1998)
October 7 – Andy Devine, character actor (died 1977)
October 11 – Fred Trump, real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (died 1999)
November 1 – Eric Siday, bandleader, electronic composer (died 1976)
November 3 – Joseph H. Ball, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1942 and 1943 to 1949 (died 1993)
November 4 – Nannie Doss, serial killer who murdered eleven people (died 1965)
November 13 – Frank Levingston, supercentenarian (died 2016)