COMIC RELIEF (March 29): Mutt and Jeff, in William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, is the first comic strip to appear daily with the same cartoon figures. Cartoonist Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher, then 23, will continue the strip until his death in 1954.

	Mutt and Jeff

A MOTHER'S LOVE (May 10): The first Mother's Day is observed in Philadelphia and in Grafton, W.Va., to honor the memory of Anna Reese Jarvis and American mothers living and dead. The observance is the idea of Anna M. Jarvis, daughter of Anna Reese Jarvis. By 1911, all states will hold Mother's Day observances. On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson will proclaim Mother's Day a national observance.

WRIGHT BROTHERS MAKE IT OFFICIAL (May 22): Wilbur and Orville Wright register their flying machine at the U.S. Patent Office.

MONSTER METEOR (June 30): At 7:17 a.m, a mysterious fireball hurtles across the sky and explodes in the atmosphere about 4 miles above a remote area of Siberia called Tunguska. The explosion, with a power later estimated at between 10 and 20 megatons of TNT, flattens and burns 850 square miles of forest and kills hundreds of reindeer. The only known human casualty is a reindeer herder at a camp about 20 miles from ground zero.

Russian scientists will not venture into the area until 1927 to measure and map the site and gather eyewitness accounts. They find a scene of utter devastation, but no crater or meteor fragments. Researchers conclude that the blast was caused by a rocky meteor, perhaps 200 feet in diameter, striking the atmosphere at an angle of about 45 degrees. They believe that it disintegrated into millions of tiny fragments no larger than fine gravel.

CAR COLLECTIVE (Sept. 16): General Motors Co. is founded by William C. Durant, who brings other carmakers together into a holding company. Durant's bankers tell him that Henry Ford's company is not worth the $8 million that Ford demands, so Ford does not join.

FIRST AIR FATALITY (Sept. 17): Lt. Thomas Selfridge of the Army Signal Corps is fatally injured in the crash of an airplane piloted by Orville Wright at Fort Myer, Va. Selfridge, 26, is the first person to die as a result of a crash since the Wright brothers opened the era of heavier-than-air flight in 1903. Wright was conducting tests for the War Department.

HENRY FORD'S MODEL (Oct. 1): The Model T rolls off Henry Ford's Detroit assembly line and instantly becomes "a motorcar for the multitudes."

The black, boxlike car initially costs $850.50, but the price will drop during the 19 years the Model T is on the market: $600 in 1912, $290 in 1924. By 1927, the last year of Model T production, 15 million will be on the road.

	William Howard Taft

NEW OVAL OFFICE OCCUPANT (Nov. 3): William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan and is elected 27th president of the United States.

BLACK BOXING CHAMP (Dec. 26): Jack Johnson of Galveston, Texas, becomes the first Negro to win the world heavyweight boxing championship when he scores a technical knockout over Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.