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Events relating to north america
In the Treaty of Paris, ending the Spanish-American War, Spain cedes Puerto Rico and Cuba to the USA
The agreement ending the Spanish-American War includes Spain selling the Philippines to the USA for a payment of $20 million
The Australian soprano Nellie Melba forms the Melba Grand Opera Company as a touring venture in the USA
US social scientist Thorstein Veblen publishes The Theory of the Leisure Class, an attack on capitalist exploitation and 'consumerism'
Marconi equips two ships to send radio reports to New York on the progress of the yachts racing for the America's Cup
US Secretary of State John Hay circulates a proposal that western powers should adopt an open-to-all trading policy in China
Frank Baum introduces children to Oz, in his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
David Belasco's play Madame Butterfly has its premiere in New York, and is subsequently seen in London by Giacomo Puccini
After a prodigiously productive career as novelist and journalist, Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28
Harvey Firestone sets up the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio
Joshua Slocum publishes Sailing Alone Around the World, an account of his famous 1895-8 circumnavigation
Jack London's first collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf, brings him a wide readership
Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie, receives no publicity because his publisher, Frank Doubleday, considers it immoral
More than 8000 people die when a hurricane demolishes the seaside resort of Galveston in Texas
The American League emerges from baseball's Western League, before going national in 1901
The Voice of the People is the first of Ellen Glasgow's novels set in her native state, Virginia
Wilbur and Orville Wright test a biplane glider at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge extends the range of his studies with Human Figure in Motion
Ransome Eli Olds manufactures the Curved Dash Oldsmobile on assembly line principles in Detroit
The concept of instant coffee is developed in Chicago by the Japanese American chemist Satori Kato
Frank Lloyd Wright designs low residential buildings, suitable for the plains around Chicago, and calls them Prairie Houses
The Texas oil industry is launched with the disovery of the 75,000-barrel-a-day Lucas Gusher near Beaumont
Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland
Frank Norris publishes The Octopus, the first of a projected trilogy of novels set in Southern California
President McKinley is assassinated by an anarchist when visiting the Pan-American exhibition in Buffalo
