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Jul 17th - NY Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas
Jul 19th - Michel Théato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k)
Jul 21st - Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite
Jul 23rd - Pan-African Congress meets in London
Jul 24th - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
Jul 25th - Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
Jul 28th - Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
Jul 29th - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
Jul 31st - Boer Generals Prinsloo & Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin
Aug 3rd - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
Aug 7th - Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
Aug 8th - 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Mass, & won by US 2 days later
Aug 10th - 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
Aug 14th - 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
Aug 14th - 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
Aug 19th - Start of the one & only olympic cricket match, in Paris
Aug 20th - Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
Aug 20th - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
Aug 22nd - Gabriel Faures opera "Prométhée," premieres in Beziers
Aug 23rd - National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
Aug 27th - Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha
Aug 30th - Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
Aug 31st - British troops over run Johannesburg
Aug 31st - Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
Sep 2nd - Telegraph use between Germany & US begins
Sep 3rd - British annex Natal (South Africa)
Sep 5th - France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
Sep 6th - British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
Sep 8th - 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas
Sep 10th - 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)
Sep 11th - President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique
Sep 13th - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
Sep 17th - Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed
Sep 17th - Queen Victoria disbands British parliament
Sep 17th - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
Sep 27th - Victory Theater (Republic, Belasco) opens at 207 W 42nd St NYC
Oct 2nd - Belg crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern
Oct 3rd - Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham
Oct 4th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG)
Oct 5th - 6th US Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 313 at Chicago GC Ill
Oct 5th - Harry Vardon wins US Open golf tournament
Oct 6th - Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
Oct 7th - The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event
Oct 9th - 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
Oct 16th - Queen Wilhelmina leaves duke Heinrich "Henry" von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Oct 19th - Henry O Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition
Oct 19th - S African Pres Paul Kruger departs for Europe
Oct 24th - General Redvers Buller returns to England
Oct 25th - England annexes Transvaal
Oct 26th - After 4 years of work, 1st section of NY subway opens
Oct 28th - After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close
Oct 30th - 1st-ever US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in NYC
Oct 31st - AL pres Ban Johnson writes to NL pres Nick Young seeking peace
Nov 3rd - 1st US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
Nov 6th - Battle at Bothaville: gen-mjr Charles Knox beats Boers
Nov 6th - Pres William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
Nov 7th - Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Nov 8th - Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
Nov 12th - World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)
Nov 13th - Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
Nov 29th - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in S Afr
Nov 30th - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
Dec 1st - South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders
Dec 2nd - South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany
Dec 7th - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
Dec 9th - Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
Dec 12th - National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing," composed
Dec 13th - Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten
Dec 14th - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Dec 16th - Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony
Dec 17th - 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
Dec 17th - New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
Dec 18th - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
Dec 20th - Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
Dec 21st - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer," premieres in Berlin
Dec 24th - Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam
Dec 25th - Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany
Dec 27th - Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)
Dec 29th - General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia