The first long-playing record was demonstrated in New York by RCA-Victor, but the venture failed because of the high price of the players 

First transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min 

Lt Selfridge, on a test flight with Orville Wright, was kills when the plane crashed, becoming the first passenger to die in an air crash 

Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight 

Playing as Sullivan, Columbia U jr Eddie Collins debuts with As 

US protests anti-semitism in Romania 

Queen Victoria disbands British parliament 

William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer, dies