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| 1899 |
| | | Belgian racing driver Camille Jenatzy is the first to drive faster than a mile a minute, reaching 65 mph in an electric car at Achères in France | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Ranjitsinhji becomes the first cricketer to score 3000 runs in a single season | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Charles Stewart Rolls wins the Automobile Club's Thousand Mile Trial in a 12 horse-power Panhard | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The American League emerges from baseball's Western League, before going national in 1901 | |
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| 1901 |
| | | The British batsman C.B. Fry hits a record six consecutive centuries in first-class cricket | |
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| 1903 |
| | | The first World Series is played between nine leading baseball teams from the National League and the American League | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The first Grand Prix of motor-racing is held near Le Mans over a 64-mile course | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The world's first custom-built motor-racing track opens at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The first International Horse Show takes place in London's Olympia stadium | |
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| 1908 |
| | | US boxer Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight champion when he knocks out Tommy Burns in Australia | |
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