June 5th: US Marines land in Cuba.

July 14th: Woody Gutherie, American folk singer born.

July 15th: The National Insurance Act comes into force introducing NI payments in the UK.

July 30th: Emperor Meiji of Japan dies.

October 14th: Theodore Roosevelt is shot in Milwaukee. With the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. Later in hospital it is deduced that the speech in his breast pocket probably saved his life.                                                               

November 12th: The bodies of Captain Scott and his team found in the Antarctic.

December 18th: The Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilized remains of an early human, is presented to the Geological Society in London. It is revealed to be a hoax in 1953.