May 07 The birth of Gary Cooper, American film actor

May 01 Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo

May 12 President McKinley visits San Fransisco

May 28 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)

May 09 Tasmanians drive Scheepers Commandos out of Craddock District in South Africa

May 23 US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo

May 03 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville FL

May 09 Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne

Jan 08 New South Wales score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes

Jan 31 Boer General John Smuts &De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal

Jan 09 New South Wales (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605

Jan 08 The first American Bowling Congress tournament begins in Chicago, Illinois.

Jan 10 Oil discovered at Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas

Jan 01 Australia becomes a Commonwealth under British rule.

Jan 31 Boer General John Smuts &De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal

Jan 24 Emily Hobhouse views Lord Kitchener's concentration camp at Bloemfontein

Jan 28 Farrier Sergeant Major William James HARDHAM 4th Contingent, NZ Army Force, won the Victoria Cross at Naauwpoort, South Africa

Jan 01 Australia becomes a Commonwealth under British rule.

Jan 22 Queen Victoria of Britain died at age 82 after a reign of 64 years.

Jan 01 Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies

Jan 01 Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies

Jan 22 Victoria, Queen of England, dies at age 82.

Jan 01 Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies

Feb 03 Dutch troops under General Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra

Feb 05 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot

Feb 12 Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed

Feb 18 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner

Feb 05 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel

Feb 07 Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Feb 05 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp

Feb 01 The birth of Clark Gable, American actor.

Feb 13 The birth of Georges Simenon, Belgian novelist

Feb 25 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan

Feb 20 First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes

Feb 02 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization

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