6 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time. October 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the U.K. November November 2 – Maggie L. Walker becomes the first African American woman to charter a bank. November 3 – Separation of Panama from Colombia: With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent of Colombia. November 6 – The English-language South China Morning Post newspaper is first published in Hong Kong. November 13 – The United States recognizes the independence of Panama. November 17 – The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). November 18 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the U.S. exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone. November 23 – Colorado governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike. November 28 – is wrecked on a reef outside Melbourne, Australia, causing one of the world's first major oil spills. December December 16 – The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Bombay (now Mumbai), India opens. December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine, the Wright Flyer, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented and successful powered and controlled heavier-than-air flight. December 30 – The Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago kills 600. December 31 – The National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden) is founded. Date unknown The Lincoln–Lee Legion is established to promote the American temperance movement and the signing of alcohol-abstinence pledges by children. The first box of Crayola crayons is made and sold for five cents. It contains eight colors; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and black. Osea Island off Maldon, Essex, England is bought by Frederick Nicholas Charrington to provide an addiction treatment centre. The Czech women's organisation Ženský Klub Český is founded. American motorbike brand Harley-Davidson is founded in Wisconsin. Compression Rheostat, the predecessor of industrial automation and industrial equipment parts brand Rockwell Automation, is founded in Wisconsin, United States. Births January January 1 – Jasimuddin, Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer and writer (d. 1976) January 2 - Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest Japanese person ever, last surviving person born in 1903 (d. 2022) January 6 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993) January 10 – Barbara Hepworth,