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1903
January 19 - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and England.
March 14 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
July 23 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
July 1-19 - First Tour de France – Maurice Garin wins
November 18 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
December 17 - Orville Wright flies aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in first documented successful controlled powered heavier-than-air flight.
December 30 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills 600.
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*1901*
March 17 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
July 4 - The 1,282 foot (390 meters) covered bridge crossing the St.John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world
December 10 - Marie Curie receives doctorate. The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death
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Oops sorry, I missed 1902! I'm bad.
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1905!........
:lol:,Tucs!
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What's with the repeats? A time machine?
1900
January 29 - The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with eight founding teams. (Take me out to the ball game ....)
February 11 - Second Boer War: Colonel Hannay begins invasion of Orange Free State with march from Orange River to Ramdam
March 24 - New York City Mayor Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
April 14 - Paris World Exhibition opens
May 17 - Boxers destroy three villages near Peking and kill 60 Chinese Christians
June 1 - Carrie Nation demolishes 25 saloons in Medicine Lodge
July 2 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany
August 14 - An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the Europeans taken hostage.
September 8 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people
October - The Norwegian inventor Johann Vaaler demands a patent for his invention, the paperclip
November 3 - the first automobile show in the United States opened at New York's Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America.
December 18 - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia opened for traffic.
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1898 hmm.. I googeld it, and the most important thing was the creation of pepsi cola!! Since this is a literature-forum, there was something about an articel by Emile Zola...
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1897- The Birth of American Writer (One of Virgil's favorite) William Faulkner
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1896
Jan 1: Jameson raid fails.
May 1: Shah of Persia assassinated
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1895 - December 28
Auguste and Louis Lumiere display their first moving picture film
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1894 - New Zealand becomes the first country to pass a minimum wage law. Coxey's Army marches to Washington D.C. to protest unemployment. 12, 000 New York City taylors and 3, 000 Illinois auto-plant workers stirke independantly for better working conditions. Martial Bourdin and Jean Pauwels attempt to strike a blow for the same by bombing the Grenwich Observatory and the Madeline Church is Paris, respectively. Both are unscucessful. Bourdin is arrested and Pauwels dies in the attempt.
Interesting year for labour.
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1893 - February 21
Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents
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1892 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States. James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball. Sport never recovers. The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered.
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1891
The Year At a Glance!
January 1 - Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany
January 20 - Jim Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.
January 29 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii
January 31 - The Portuguese republican revolution broke out in the northern city of Porto.
February 14 - In the FA cup Quarter Final, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the goal line. An Indirect free kick is awarded, since the Penalty kick was proposed that year but not implemented. This event probably changed public opinion on the penalty kick, which was seen as 'an Irishman's motion' before. (See William McCrum.)
March 3 - The International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed by the 51st Congress of the United States of America
March 9 - 12 - Powerful storm off England's south coast; 14 ships sink
March 14 - In New Orleans, lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison and lynches eleven Italians arrested but found innocent for the murder of Police Chief David Hennessey.
March 17 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.
April 1 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago.
May 1 - Nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies, France.
May 5 - The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
May 11 - Otsu Scandal
May 15 - Roman Catholic Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical "Rerum Novarum" resulting in the creation of many Christian Democrat Parties throughout Europe.
May 20 - First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs).
June 16 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
June 21 - First long-distance transmission of Alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
August 27 - France and Russia conclude defensive alliance.
October 1 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors
October 27 - An 8.0 earthquake strikes the village of Utsuzumi in rural Gifu, Japan, killing over 7,000 across the region and creating a 3-meter-tall surface fault that is still visible today
December 29 - Thomas Edison patents the radio
