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.
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
Paris Metro opens.
The Federation of Australia was given Royal Assent.
The Zeppelin Takes Off for the First Time.
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.
Boer War begins in South Africa.
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.
Wilmington riots begin.
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 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was incorporated.
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.
George Smith, a London taxi driver, became the first person ever to be fined for drunk driving.
The London Electric Cab began operating on London streets.
Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin.
Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah became the first elected female State Senator in the United States.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is first published.
The chandelier of the Palais Garnier Opera House broke, and its debris fell on a crowd.
The first modern international Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece.
Aleksander Popov achieves the world's first radio transmission.
Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
College students illegally produced America's first X-ray photo.
Austrian newspaper called 'Die Presse' released Willhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays.
Utah became the 45th state to join the United States of America.
