Gov. Andrew Harris takes up residence at the Hartman Hotel at E. Main and S. 4th streets. Fire House 14 is built on Parsons Avenue. The Pure Food and Drug Act is enacted after Upton Sinclair depicts Chicago stockyard conditions in The Jungle. The forward pass is approved for college football. Oklahoma territory becomes the nation's 46th state.
Panic causes a run on banks.
The first Ziegfeld Follies staged in New York. The first Mother's Day is observed in Philadelphia. The first newspaper comic strip, Mr. Mutt, is published in the San Francisco Chronicle. The Boy Scouts is founded in England. The world's first municipal water purification and softening plant opens here.