a record 6,745 admissions.
27/3/1913, The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Futrell v. Oldham that Junius Futrell was the Governor of Arkansas, after Futrell and former President William Kavanaugh Oldham had both claimed the office
25/2/1913. In the USA, Federal income tax was introduced. By the 16th Amendment the US Government was authorised to raise a tax of between 1% and 6% on incomes of more than US$ 4,000 (US$ 3,000 for bachelors) without having to share this tax revenue between the States of the Union according to their population.
3/2/1913. In the USA, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. This authorised the imposition of income tax.
1912, US President Taft passed an Act stipulating how the US flag should look (see 1818). It then had 48 stars.
2/11/1912, An explosion on the battleship USS Vermont near Norfolk, Virginia killed 2 and injured 4.
14/10/1912. President Roosevelt was shot and seriously wounded by a demented man in Milwaukee.
5/8/1912, In Chicago, the Progressive Party, nicknamed the "Bull Moose" Party to rival the Republican elephant and Democrat donkey, called itself to order as its founding convention opened at noon.
23/6/1912, A bridge over the Niagara Falls collapsed, killing 47.
27/5/1912, Sam Snead, US golfer, was born.
12/4/1912, Clara Barton (born 25/12/1812 near Oxford, Massachusetts) died at Glen Echo, Maryland. She founded the American Red Cross in 1881, having worked in Europe with the Red Cross there to alleviate the suffering caused by the Franco-Prussian War.
14/2/1912. Arizona became the 48th State of the USA.
6/1/1912. New Mexico became the 47th State of the USA.
29/11/1911, The US journalist Joseph Pulitzer died.
3/11/1911, Death of Norman Jay Colman, the first US Secretary of Agriculture (born 16/5/1827).
27/5/1911, Hubert Humphrey, US politician, was born (died 1978).
25/3/1911, Jack Ruby, American nightclub owner, and killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, was born as Jack Rubenstein in Chicago (died 1967).
23/2/1911, Quanah Parker, 65, Principal Chief of the Comanche Nation, died.
17/2/1911, The city of Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, was incorporated.
25/1/1911. US troops were sent to Rio Grande in the Mexican Civil War.
1/10/1910, Bonnie Parker, US outlaw of the Bonnie and Clyde duo, was born in Rowena, Texas.
30/9/1910, US terrorist J.B. McNamara planted a time bomb in a passage beneath the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times newspaper, with 16 sticks of dynamite set to explode after working hours. Two other bombs were placed outside the homes of the Times owner and the secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. The bomb outside the Times building detonated shortly after 1:00 a.m. on Saturday, triggering an explosion of natural gas lines and setting a fire that killed 20 newspaper employees.
19/6/1910. Fathers Day was instituted in the USA.
18/6/1910, The city of Glendale, Arizona, was incorporated.
5/6/1910, Death of American short-story writer Henry O.
21/4/1910. Mark Twain, American author, died in Reading, Connecticut, aged 74.
16/12/1909, US marines forced the resignation of President Jose Zelaya of Nicaragua.
22/8/1909, 5 US workers died in steel industry riots.
24/3/1909, Clyde Barrow, one of the Bonnie and Clyde outlaws, was born in Toledo, Texas.
5/1/1909. The Colombian Government formally recognised Panamanian independence.
14/11/1908, Joseph McCarthy, US politician and lawyer noted for his purge against Communists, was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin.
13/11/1908, C Vann Woodward, US historian, was born (died 1992).
14/10/1908, George Harold Brown, US engineer, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
12/8/1908, The Model T Ford began rolling off the production line. Priced at US$ 825, the cost was kept low by mass production using standardised parts. Instead of one man assembling an entire car, each worker preformed just one task as the car moved along a conveyor belt. By this production line method, the time to assemble a car was cut from 14 hours to 2. To motivate his workforce, Henry Ford raised wages from US$ 2.34 for a 9 hour day 