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Top Song(s)
• Bert Williams - Good Morning, Carrie
• Arthur Collins - Bill Bailey (Won't You Please Come Home)
• Sousa's Band - Semper Fidelis
• Len Spencer - Arkansas Traveler
• Byron G Harlan - The Mansion of Aching Hearts
Top Film(s)
• A Trip to the Moon
• The Eruption of Mt. Pelee
• Gulliver's Travels
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• Jack and the Beanstalk
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• The Monkey's Paw - W.W. Jacobs
• The Virginian - Owen Wister
Famous Deaths
• March 7 – Pud Galvin, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer.
• March 11 – Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist, founder of BASF.
• April 3 – Esther Hobart Morris, American suffragist judge.
• May – Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge, American philanthropist, author and reformer.
• May 7 – Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest, founder of the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata.
• June 8 – Charles Ingalls, American pioneer and father of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
• July 6 – Maria Goretti, Italian Roman Catholic virgin, martyr and saint.
• September 6 - Winfield Scott Stratton, American mining prospector and philanthropist.
• September 7 – William N. Roach, American politician and member of the United States Senate.
• December 4 – Charles Dow, American journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company.
Medical/Health/Science
• The earliest studies of Rocky Mountain spotted fever took place in Montana.
• July 1 - A bill approved July 1 changed the name of the Marine Hospital Service to the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service.
• The 57th Congress enacted Public Law 244 to regulate the shipment of biologics.
• July 1 - The Advisory Board for the Biologics Control Division was established.
• December 2 - The Pan American Sanitary Bureau was established.
• First Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) discovered by Captain Robert von Beringe in German East Africa.
• February – A commission on yellow fever in the United States announces that the disease is carried by mosquitoes.
• William Bayliss and Ernest Starling make the first discovery of a hormone, secretin.
• December 30 – Discovery Expedition: British explorers Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S.
• July 17 – Willis Carrier devises the first modern air conditioning system for a plant in New York City.
Political Events
• February 1 - US Secretary of State John Hay protests granting Russia exclusive privileges in China.
• March 6 - Permanent US Census office created by legislation passed by Congress.
• March 10 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
• March 20 - France and Russia issue a joint declaration that approves the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
• April 8 - Russia and China sign the Convention of Evacuation under which Russia agrees to evacuate Manchuria within 18 months.
• April 29 - Congress extends the Chinese Exclusion Act (of 1882) prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers.
• May 10 - Portugal goes bankrupt, but its parliament passes a bill converting its external debt.
• May 22 - US President Theodore Roosevelt signs a treaty with Mexico over interest payments to the Court of Arbitration at The Hague.
• May 31 - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal.
• June 17 - US Congress pass the New Lands Reclamation Act.
National Events
• January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17 people, injures 38.
• April 2 – The Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
• January 1 - Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Pennsylvania.
• January 28 - Carnegie Institute founded in Washington, D.C.
• March 10 - A Circuit Court decision in the United States ends Thomas Edison's monopoly on 35 mm movie film technology.
• June 2 – The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States.
• July 8 – The United States Bureau of Reclamation is established within the U.S. Geological Survey.
• July 10 – The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 112 miners.
• July 22 – Felix Pedro discovers gold in modern-day Fairbanks, Alaska.
• August 22 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile.
Worldwide Events
• April–August – Eruption of Mount Pelée in Martinique.
• February 15 – The Berlin U-Bahn underground is opened.
• February 1 - China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet.
• February 11 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
• February 17 - A general strike in Barcelona and nearby towns leads to government-troop reprisals that leave 40 dead.
• May 20 – Cuba gains independence from the United States.
• June 16 – The Commonwealth Franchise Act in Australia grants women's suffrage in federal elections for resident British subjects.
• August 1 – 100 miners die in a pit explosion in Wollongong, Australia.
• September 1 – The first science fiction film, the silent A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune), is premiered in Paris, France.
• November 15 - King Leopold II of Belgium survives an attempted assassination in Brussels by Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino.