Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga of Serbia are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization. June 14 – The town of Heppner, Oregon is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that results in a flash flood that kills about 238 people. June 16 – The Ford Motor Company is founded by Henry Ford with $28,000 in cash from 12 investors. June 27 – American socialite Aida de Acosta, 19, becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, "No. 9", from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France. July July 1–19 – The first Tour de France bicycle race is held; Maurice Garin wins it. July 7 – The British take over the Fulani Empire. July 29 – The explosion of a United States Cartridge Company magazine destroys 70 homes, killing 22 residents of Tewksbury, Massachusetts. July 30–August 23 (July 17–August 10, O.S.) – The Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party is held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London. August August 2 – The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, organized by the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, breaks out in the Ottoman provinces of Macedonia and Adrianople. August 3 – The Kruševo Republic is proclaimed in Ottoman Macedonia; it is crushed 10 days later. August 4 – Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope. August 10 – The Paris Métro train fire at Couronnes results in 84 deaths. August 25 – The Judiciary Act is passed in the Australian parliament. September September – Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas opens as Southwest Texas Normal School. September 11 – The first stock-car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile. September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary in order to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference. September 15 – Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil. September 24 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin. September 27 – The Wreck of the Old 97 Fast Mail train at Stillhouse Trestle, near Danville, Virginia, kills 11 people and inspires a ballad. September 29 – Prussia becomes the second jurisdiction to require mandatory driver's licenses for operators of motor vehicles, after New York State in 1901. October October 1-13 – First modern World Series: The Boston Americans defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in eight games. October