The United States takes over the construction of the Panama Canal.
The Australian Labor Party led the world's first Labor Government.
France and the United Kingdom sign the Entente cordiale.
The first international rugby league took place in Wigan, England.
The Williamsburg suspension bridge opened.
The first sustained motorized aircraft flight took place.
Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters founded the Women’s Social and Political Union.
New Zealand's All Blacks played their first international test against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground.
Maurice-François Garin won the first Tour de France.
Benito Mussolini was arrested in Switzerland for a violent strike. He spent two weeks in jail and was deported to Italy.
The iconic Niagara Falls waterfall ran out of water during a drought.
The United States of America leased Guantanamo Bay from Cuba, with the lease lasting an indefinite period.
Massachusetts's Marconi Wireless Station Site successfully sent the first radio transmission between the US and Europe.
The famous elephant called Topsy was executed at Luna Park, Coney Island, in New York.
The classic children's book 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' by Beatrix Potter was published in London, England.
Theodore Roosevelt became the first US President to appear in an automobile publicly.
One hundred and forty thousand miners went on strike in Pennsylvania.
Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium in Paris, France.
J.C. Penney's opened their first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
Texaco was formed.
On her 63rd birthday, American school teacher Annie Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
President Theodore Roosevelt changed the name of the 'Executive Mansion' to 'The White House.'
Theodore Roosevelt became the US president after former president William McKinley died from gunshot wounds.
Pablo Picasso had his first exhibition in Paris, France.
New York state became the first to require license plates on automobiles.
J.P. Morgan incorporated the US Steel Corporation.
Winston Churchill gave his first speech in the British House of Commons.
Queen Victoria's funeral took place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.
After the death of Queen Victoria, Britain moved their postage stamps to the King Edward VII series.
The USS Holland (SS-1) became the first modern submarine commissioned for the United States Navy.
The Federation of Australia was given Royal Assent.
Hawaii became a US territory when President William McKinley signed it into law.
The US Navy bought their first-ever submarine called the USS Holland or SS-1.
The Rapid Transit Railroad broke ground on a new underground subway to link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
The British Labour Party was founded.
The Battle of Tirad Pass was fought.
The first case of the bubonic plague was announced in Honolulu.
Henry Bliss became the first person killed in an automobile accident in the United States.
The first-ever message was sent from a ship to the shore at Cliff House, San Francisco.
German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin granted a patent for the navigable balloon.
Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkurv (Reykjavík Football Club), was founded.
French scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.
The Treaty of Paris was signed.
The Titanic of New England, the SS Portland, sunk off the coast of Maine.
The largest music fraternity in the USA, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, was founded.
Machine guns were used for the first time in a battle in Omdurman, Sudan, Africa.
The US Navy claimed the island of Guam, which was previously under Spanish control.
American Astronomer William Henry Pickering discovered Phoebe, one of Saturn's moons.
The tone poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss premiered in Cologne, Germany.
