Jul 13 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio

Jul 30 "Scientific America" carried the first magazine automobile ad. The Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH invited readers to "Dispense with a Horse."

Jul 27 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Dancing Men" (BG)

Jul 28 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Retired Colourman"(BG)

Jul 25 The first US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay

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.

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