Apr 21 L Carnera discovers asteroid #470 Kilia

Apr 25 Erve Beck hit the first home run in the American League

Apr 25 New York becomes first state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)

Apr 25 Australian forces return from service in the Boxer Rebellion in China

Apr 29 The birth of Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Nov 27 Army War College established in Washington DC

Nov 29 East 182nd Street in the Bronx is paved and opened

Nov 18 The birth of George Gallup, American pollster

Nov 16 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds

Nov 23 Lieutenant LC Maygar, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, becomes the sixth and last Australian to be awarded a Victoria Cross in the Boer War

Nov 15 Hearing aid patented in New York, by Miller Reese

Nov 20 The opera "Gris‚lidis" is produced (Paris)

Nov 30 Death of Australian explorer Edward John Eyre.

Sep 05 The first US professional baseball league is established, in Chicago, IL.

Sep 29 The birth of Enrico Fermi, American nuclear physicist

Sep 02 VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly &carry a big stick"

Sep 06 US President William McKinley is shot and mortally wounded by an asailant at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. Sep 06,

Sep 02 US Vice President Theodore Roosevelt makes his famous "Speak softly and carry a big stick" speech at the Minnesota State Fair.

Sep 09 French painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec dies.

Sep 12 Arabs attack Gedara Palestine

Jun 07 M Wolf discovers asteroid #471 Papagena

Jun 12 Victorians trapped in surprise attack at Wilmansrust

Jun 24 Picasso displays his work for the very first time

Jun 11 Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand

Dec 05 The birth of Walt Disney, US cartoon and film producer

Dec 11 Marconi sends first transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld

Dec 12 Marconi receives first transatlantic radio signal, England to US

Dec 10 The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden

Dec 27 Marlene Dietrich (Maria von Losch) actress in first German talkie is born

Dec 27 The birth of Marlene Dietrich, German actress

Dec 02 Gillette patents first disposable razor

Dec 03 Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech to the house of representatives, kicks off his effort to curb the power of business trusts.

Aug 22 Cadillac Company founded

Aug 01 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited

Aug 08 The birth of Ernest Lawrence, US physicist

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