Jun 14 Hawaiian Republic becomes the US Territory of Hawaii

Jun 11 Australians in action at Diamond Hill

Jun 20 A "Boxer Rebellion" rocks China beginning when foreign legations at Beijing are besieged by members of a militia force

Jun 26 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever

Jun 08 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 6 Napoleons" (BG)

Jun 13 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners &Christians

Jun 21 Arthur MacArthur, U.S. military governor in the Philippines, grants an amnesty to Filipino rebels

Jun 04 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #456 Abnoba

Jun 12 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power

Jun 30 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die

Dec 22 A new 35-horsepower car built by Daimler from a design by Emil Jellinek was completed. The car was named for Jellinek's daughter, Mercedes.

Dec 27 Carrie Nation's first public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)

Dec 06 Journalist and parliamentary reporter Alphonse Desjardins founds North Amberica's first credit union in Levis Quebec

Dec 17 First prize of 100,000 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy

Dec 20 Giacobini discovers a comet which later will be visited bya spacecraft

Dec 06 Agnes (Robertson) Moorehead Emmy Award-winning actresswas born

Aug 21 Allied forces overun Peking's inner city

Aug 25 Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche dies in Weimar, Germany.

Aug 08 NSW and Victorian Contingent departs Sydney for the Boxer Rebellion in China

Aug 14 Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners

Aug 15 Regular service is commenced over the 3'0" gauge White Pass and Yukon Railway between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon.

Aug 23 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)

Aug 04 The birth of Queen Elizabeth, British Queen Mother

Aug 30 Outbreak of bubonic plague in Glasgow, UK

Oct 25 England annexes Transvaal

Oct 28 After over 5 months the Paris Olympic games close

Oct 07 The birth of Heinrich Himmler, Feared head of the Nazi 'SS' and 'Gestapo'

Oct 04 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG)

Jul 23 Pan-African Congress meets in London

Jul 24 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed

Jul 12 114ø F (46ø C), Basin, Wyoming (state record)

Jul 02 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin first airship LZ-1, flies

Jul 09 Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act is enacted by the United Kingdom Parliament.

Jul 29 In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I was shot to death by Gaetano Bresci, an Italian-born anarchist who had resided in America before returning to his homeland to murder the king

Jul 09 Queen Victoria gives assent to the Commonwealth of Australia Bill,

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