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    Events

  • January_4 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S._state.
  • January_5 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm_Röntgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
  • January_12 - H.L._Smith takes the first X-ray photograph.
  • January_18 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
  • February_1 - The opera ''La_Bohème'' premieres (Turin).
  • February_11 - Oscar_Wilde's play ''Salomé'' premieres in Paris.
  • March_1 - With the Battle_of_Adowa, Ethiopia defended its independence from Italy. Henri_Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
  • May_1 - Charles_Tupper becomes Canada's sixth prime minister.
  • May_14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever filmed. One thousand spectators crushed to death in Khodynskoe Fields during coronation celebrations.
  • May_18 - The U.S._Supreme_Court announces its decision in the infamous case ''Plessy_v._Ferguson''.
  • May_26 - Charles_Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average.
  • July_9 - William_Jennings_Bryan delivers his Cross_of_gold_speech.
  • July_11 - Wilfrid_Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister.
  • August_16 - George_Carmack discovers gold in the Klondike.
  • November - William_McKinley defeats William_Jennings_Bryan in the U.S. presidential election.
  • Nepalese archaeologists rediscover the great stone pillar of Ashoka at Lumbini, using Fa_Xian's records.

    Art, Culture & Fashion

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    Births

  • January_2 - Dziga_Vertov, filmmaker
  • January_4 - Everett_Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
  • January_12 - Rex_Ingram, director and actor (d. 1950)
  • January_14 - Martin_Niemöller, German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984)
  • January 14 - John_Dos_Passos, author (d. 1970)
  • January_23 - Grand Duchess Charlotte_of_Luxembourg
  • February_11 - Else_Lasker-Schuler, writer
  • February_18 - André__Breton, poet, principal theoretician of surrealism (d. 1966)
  • March_12 - Sir John Abbott, third Prime_Minister_of_Canada
  • March_20 - Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, world war 1 ace
  • March_29 - Wilhelm_Ackermann, mathematician
  • April_30 - Gary_Davis, reverend
  • May_11 - Mari_Sandoz, writer (d. 1966)
  • May_30 - Howard_Hawks, director (d. 1977)
  • June_19 - Wallis_Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
  • July_16 - Trygve_Lie, the first United_Nations_Secretary_General (d. 1968)
  • August_18 - Jack_Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy" (d. 1933)
  • August_30 - Raymond_Massey, actor (d. 1983)
  • October_1 - Liaquat_Ali_Khan, first Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan (d. 1951)
  • October_28 - Howard_Hanson, composer
  • October_31 - Ethel_Waters, singer (d. 1977)
  • November_8 - Bucky_Harris, Baseball_Hall_of_Famer (d. 1977)
  • December_6 - Ira_Gershwin, lyricist
  • December_14 - George_VI Windsor, father of Elizabeth_II
  • December_14 - Jimmy_Doolittle, American World_War_II General.
  • December_24 - F_Scott_Fitzgerald, American writer.

    Deaths

  • January_8 - Paul_Verlaine, lyric poet
  • May_20 - Clara_Schumann, Austrian composer
  • August_10 - Otto_Lilienthal, aviation pioneer
  • August_17 - Bridget_Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
  • October_11 - Anton_Bruckner, Austrian composer
  • December_10 - Alfred_Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel_Prize
  • December_30 - José_Rizal, national hero of the Philippines

    Heads of State

  • China - Guāngxù Emperor_of_China, Qing_Dynasty (1875-1908)
  • Denmark - Christian IX, King_of_Denmark (1863-1906)
  • France - Félix_Faure, President_of_France (1895-1899)
  • Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
  • Holy_See - Pope_Leo_XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
  • Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji Emperor (1867-1912)
  • Norway - Oscar II, King_of_Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
  • Ottoman_Empire - Abdul_Hamid_II, Sultan_of_the_Ottoman_Empire (1876-1909)
  • Russia - Nicholas II, Tsar_of_Russia (1894-1917)
  • Spain - Alfonso_XIII_of_Spain, King_of_Spain (1886-1931)
  • United_States - Grover_Cleveland, President_of_the_United_States (1893-1897)
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