Jun 17 Navy Hospital Corps established

Jun 12 Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control

Jun 07 Social Democracy of America party holds first national convention, Chic

Jun 01 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha

Jun 29 In St. John's Newfoundland, the first through passenger train across Newfoundland leaves St. Johns at 19 20 and arrives Port aux Basques at 22 45, June 30.

Dec 10 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR and Guam

Dec 18 At a site near Paris, France, Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the world's first official automobile land speed record of 39 miles per hour.

Dec 21 Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium

Dec 13 First passenger train over the newly reconstructed Victoria Railway Bridge, Montreal. The original 1859 tube had been replaced by a double track steel bridge.

Dec 26 Radium, the radioactive element, discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie

Aug 12 Hawaii formally annexed to US

Aug 16 Roller coaster patented

Aug 12 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed

Oct 01 Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia

Oct 18 American flag raised in Puerto Rico

Oct 01 Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway

Oct 20 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms

Oct 18 Puerto Rico formerly taken over by America, from the Spanish

Jul 22 Belgica crew see first sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter

Jul 03 Joshua Slocum 1844-1909, from Briar Island, Nova Scotia, becomes the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the earth.

Jul 07 US annexes Hawaii

Jul 30 The birth of Henry Moore, English sculptor

Jul 01 Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill

Jul 04 Sable Island, Nova Scotia, the French ship La Bourgogne collides with British ship the Cromartyshire; 560 persons drown.

Jul 25 During the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces launched their invasion of Puerto Rico, a 108-mile long, forty-mile-wide island that was one of Spain's two principle possessions in the Caribbean.

Jul 17 Spanish American War-Spaniads surrender to US at Santiago Cuba

Jul 16 A Charlois discovers asteroid #437 Rhodia

Jul 13 SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens

Jul 24 The birth of Amelia Earhart, American aviator

Jul 04 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark "Cromartyshire", 560 die

Jul 07 Pres McKinley signs resolution of annexation of Hawaiian Is

Jul 03 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba

Jul 06 Armed Auxiliary Dixie captures Spanish Three Bells, Pilgrim, and Greeman Castle

Jul 21 Spain cedes Guam to US

Jul 04 US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)

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