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
Aug 22 Cadillac Company founded
Aug 01 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited
Aug 08 The birth of Ernest Lawrence, US physicist
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"
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
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
