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(''' MCMIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (see link for calendar).
- April 6 - Robert Peary , Matthew Henson , and four Eskimo explorers allegedly reach the North Pole .
- April 27 - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and succeeded by his brother, Muhammad V . He leaves the country the next day.
- May - ''Choosing a vocation'' by Frank Parsons (d. 1908 ) is published.
- June 1 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle .
- June 2 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister Of Australia for the third time.
- June 9 – Alice Huyler Ramsey , a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey , became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell Automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California .
- June 15 - Representatives from England , Australia and South Africa meet at Lords and form the Imperial Cricket Conference .
- June 22 - Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal , which would separate Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts , United States .
- July 13 - Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario .
- July 16 - A Revolution forces Mohammad Ali Shah , Persian Shah of the Qajar Dynasty to abdicate in favor of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar . He proceeds in leaving Persia for Imperial Russia , reportedly seeking the assistance of Nicholas II Of Russia in regaining the throne.
- July 25 - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
- August 8 - Launching of The Rosicrucian Fellowship at Seattle ( Washington ). Later, in October 28 1911 , its international headquarters, till today, were physically launched at Mount Ecclesia , Oceanside ( California , United States ) and the ''Healing Temple'' "The Ecclesia" was lauched in December 25 1920 .
- August 12 - The first event was held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway .
- September 9 - Comet Halley first recorded on a photographic plate.
- September 10 - 21 - Hurricane sweeps over Louisiana and Mississippi , killing 350.
- September 25 - Aurora s seen in Singapore .
- January 1 - Barry Goldwater , American politician (d. 1998 )
- January 3 - Victor Borge , Danish entertainer (d. 2000 )
- January 5 - Stephen Cole Kleene , American mathematician (d. 1994 )
- January 8 - Willy Millowitsch , German actor (d. 1999 )
- January 13 - Marinus Van Der Lubbe , Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (d. 1934 )
- January 15 - Jean Bugatti , German-born automobile designer (d. 1939 )
- January 15 - Gene Krupa , American drummer (d. 1973 )
- January 16 - Clement Greenberg , American art critic (d. 1994 )
- January 19 - Hans Hotter , German bass-baritone (d. 2003 )
- January 22 - Ann Sothern , American actress (d. 2001 )
- January 22 - U Thant , Burmese United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974 )
- January 24 - Martin Lings , British Islamic scholar (d. 2005 )
- F. E. McWilliam , Northern Irish sculptor (d. 1989 )
- Japan colonises Korea(independence of Korea:August 15 1945)
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