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Top Song(s)
• Billy Murray - Yankee Doodle (Song)
• Henry Burr - In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
• Richard Jose - The Day That You Grew Colder
• Corrine Morgan - Dearie
• Winnie Melville - The Pipes of Pan
Top Film(s)
• The Black Imp
• The Night Before Christmas
• Rescued by Rover
• The Palace of Arabian Knights
• The Christmas Angel
Best Selling Book(s)
• A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy
• The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
• White Fang - Jack London
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Famous Deaths
• January 14 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company).
• February 18 - Jay Cooke, American financier, fundraiser for the Federal government during US Civil War.
• February 19 – Benjamin Harris Babbidge, Australian politician, 19th Mayor of Brisbane.
• March 15 - Meyer Guggenheim, Swiss-born patriarch of the Guggenheim Family.
• March 24 – Jules Verne, French science fiction author.
• May 23 – Mary Livermore, American advocate of women's rights.
• June 30 - John Hay, American politician, a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and US Secretary of State.
• July 15 – Raimundo Fernandez-Villaverde, 28th Prime Minister of Spain.
• August 21 - Mary Mapes Dodge, American children's author, editor and writer.
• November 14 – Robert Whitehead, British engineer and inventor.
Medical/Science/Technology
• The Dominion Observatory opens in Ottawa.
• William Bateson coins the term "genetics" in a letter to Adam Sedgwick.
• Dr. Ernest Henry Starling introduces the word "hormone" into the English language.
• Themistocles Zammit identifies unpasteurized milk as the major source causing Brucellosis.
• National Association of Audubon Society established in the United States.
• Carl von Linde obtains pure liquid oxygen and nitrogen by cooling air.
• Alfred Einhorn synthesises the local anesthetic novocaine.
• Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch develop the Haber process for making ammonia from its elements.
• Nikolai Korotkov first describes auscultatory blood pressure measurement.
• Walter Griffiths invents a manually powered domestic vacuum cleaner.
Political Events
• January 6 - The U.S. Senate confirms the nomination of William D. Crum, an African-American, to the office of collector of customs.
• January 11 – Under the supervision of five editors, work begins on the comprehensive Catholic Encyclopedia.
• January 21 – The Dominican Republic sign an agreement with U.S. to allow the collection of customs taxes for Santo Domingo.
• January 27 – The Nelson Act is passed into law in the United States, providing for racial segregation of schools in the Alaska Territory.
• February 1 – U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell of Oregon is indicted on charges arising from a scandal involving land grants.
• May 30 – Japan's Prime Minister Katsura Tar? asks President Theodore Roosevelt to moderate peace to end the Russo-Japanese War.
• July 8 – President Roosevelt sends his 21-year-old daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and her party on a diplomatic journey to Japan.
• August 24 – Frederick D. White becomes the first Commissioner of the Northwest Territories in Canada.
• August 25 – Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to travel underwater, after boarding the Navy submarine USS Plunger.
• December 30 - A bomb kills Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho;and leads to a trial against the Western Federation of Miners.
National Events
• January 6 - The Lick Observatory announces the discovery of a sixth moon of Jupiter.
• February 9 – Prince A. Morrow begins the movement in the U.S. for sex education.
• February 23 – Rotary International is founded in Chicago in the U.S.
• March 20 - The Grover Shoe Factory disaster kills 58 employees in Brockton, Massachusetts, when a boiler explodes.
• April 6 – A violent strike by the Teamsters' Union begins in Chicago.
• April 28 – A tornado strikes Laredo, Texas and kills 100.
• May 15 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres of land adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks are auctioned.
• June 21 – New York Central Railroad's 20th Century Limited train is derailed in an apparent act of sabotage, killing 21 people.
• August 8 – Fourteen employees of a department store in Albany, New York are killed when the building collapses suddenly.
• August 23 – A. Roy Knabenshue introduces the dirigible to the skies of New York City.
Worldwide Events
• January 15 – A series of three 135 ft high tsunamis kill 61 people in Norway.
• January 26 – The Imperial Russian Army opens fire on demonstrators in Riga, killing 73 people and injuring 200.
• February 4 – A simultaneous uprising begins at six cities in Argentina against the government of President Manuel Quintana.
• February 17 – Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the Governor-General of Moscow is assassinated.
• April 2 – The Simplon Tunnel through the Alps is opened to railway traffic.
• April 20 – The largest ocean liner in the world at this time, the German SS Amerika is launched.
• June 13 – Theodoros Diligiannis, Prime Minister of Greece, is assassinated.
• June 18 – A coal mine explosion in Russia kills 500 employees at the Ivan Colliery at Kharsisk.
• June 29 – The Automobile Association is founded in the United Kingdom.
• July 14 - The government of France institutes its first government assistance program for elderly and disabled persons.