Aug 15 The Cadillac motor company founded in Detroit

Aug 15 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro

Aug 05 Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4"

Oct 24 First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)

Oct 04 Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup

Oct 29 Leon Czolgosz, who assassinated President McKinley, is put to death in the electric chair.

Oct 02 First submarine commissioned by the British Navy is launched from Barrow, north-west England.

Oct 19 Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower

Jul 03 In Calgary Alberta, W.F. (Billy) Cochrane drives first automobile in Calgary; a steam-powered Locomobile, steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.

Jul 09 The birth of Barbra Cartland, English novelist

Jul 07 The birth of Vittorio de Sica, Italian film director

Jul 11 L Carnera discovers asteroid #472 Roma

Jul 05 The birth of Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter

Mar 02 Hawaii's first telegraph company opens

Mar 20 General Electric starts construction of a large Canadian factory in Toronto.

Mar 23 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast

Mar 01 Naval and military forces of the States transferred to Commonwealth control

Mar 03 Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce

Mar 08 Samuel Benfield Steele, commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, arrives back in Halifax with his regiment after fighting the Boers in South Africa.

Mar 17 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands

Mar 09 In British Columbia, naturalized Japanese Canadians win right to vote; successfully appeal BC Elections Act

Mar 04 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as President

Mar 25 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown IA

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