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Events relating to north america
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes US president on McKinley's death
Edith Wharton's publishes her first full-length novel, The Valley of Decision
US philosopher William James publishes his influential book The Varieties of Religious Experience
Alfred Stieglitz and other US photographers launch the Photo-Secession movement
Helen Keller's The Story of My Life begins publication in serial form
North Carolina pharmacist Caleb Bradham launches the Pepsi-Cola company in a back room of his shop
A.E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside independently see the link between the atmosphere and the behaviour of radio waves
The US Congress makes the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 permanent, without the need for ten-year renewals
Hughie Cannon writes 'Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home' for a minstrel, John Queen
Brooklyn shopkeepers Morris and Rose Michtom have a huge success with their presidential 'Teddy's Bear'
The Wizard of Oz, based on the book by Frank Baum, opens on Broadway as a musical to huge success
Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence in Guantanamo Bay
US author Jack London publishes a novel, The Call of the Wild, in which a huge pet dog has alarming adventures
Gertrude Stein leaves the USA to share with her brother an apartment in Paris that soon becomes a literary and artistic salon
Edwin S. Porter directs The Great Train Robbery, providing a big commercial success for Thomas Edison's film company
A US warship appears off the coast of Panama in support of rebels declaring an independent republic
The Colombian government rejects the Hay-Herrán treaty with the US on the Panama canal, thus prompting the break-away of Panama
William Harley and three Davidson brothers begin the commercial production in Milwaukee of motorcycles, but complete only three by the end of the year
US author W.E.B. Du Bois publishes his first collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk
The Pit, the second volume of an uncompleted trilogy by US novelist Frank Norris, is published posthumously
The first World Series is played between nine leading baseball teams from the National League and the American League
The USA is granted exclusive control in perpetuity of a ten-mile corridor across Panama, suitable for a canal
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his US debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera
Orville Wright travels 40 yards in the first successful powered flight, at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina
Helen Keller overcomes deafness and blindness to graduate cum laude at Radcliffe College in the USA
