Mar 24 The first recoreded sale of an automobile

Mar 25 Assist. SECNAV Theodore Roosevelt proposes Navy investigate military application of Samuel Langley's flying machine, beginning naval aviation

Mar 08 Richard Straus' "Don Quixote", premieres in Keulen

Mar 17 The first practical submarine submerges, off New York NY for 1 hour 40 minutes

Mar 11 The birth of Dorothy Gish, Silent screen star

Mar 19 USS Oregon departs San Francisco for 14,000 mile trip around South America to join U.S. Squadron off Cuba

Mar 21 Explosion in mine at Dudley Colliery, Stockton, near Newcastle, NSW, kills 15 men.

Mar 02 Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England

Mar 01 Through service commences over the Intercolonial Railway between Halifax and Montreal. This is achieved through a series of leases and running rights agreements with the Grand trunk Railway.

Aug 12 Hawaii formally annexed to US

Aug 16 Roller coaster patented

Aug 12 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed

Sep 26 The birth of George Gershwin, American composer

Sep 21 Tzu-Hsi, dowager Empress of China, seizes power and revokes reforms

Sep 02 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain

Sep 26 George Gershwin, composer born

Feb 22 Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC

Feb 11 Owen Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia

Feb 23 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus

Feb 10 The birth of Bertolt Brecht, German poet and dramatist

Feb 15 USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die

Feb 01 First auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company

Feb 20 The birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer

Feb 08 John Ames Sherman patents first envelope folding &gumming machine (Massachusetts)

Apr 09 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese

Apr 03 The birth of Henry Luce, American publisher (founder of Time magazine)

Apr 22 Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship

Apr 25 Congress declares war existed with Spain since 21 April

Apr 21 Spanish-American War begins

Apr 29 U.S. warships engage Spanish gunboats and shore batteries at Cienfuegos, Cuba

Apr 14 Commissioning of first Post Civil War hospital ship, USS Solace

Apr 24 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba

Apr 22 Spanish-American War action USS Nashville, takes enemy ship

Apr 02 Adoption of U.S. Naval Academy coat of arms

Apr 12 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy

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