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Events relating to america
Canada's first French-speaking and Roman Catholic premier, Wilfrid Laurier, wins the first of four consecutive spells as premier
US engineer Henry Ford test-drives his first four-wheel internal-combustion vehicle, the Quadricycle, built in a coal shed behind his home
Reports of gold in what becomes known as Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike, prompt a massive gold rush into the Yukon
Republican candidate William McKinley wins the US presidential election, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan
The Spanish governor in Cuba is recalled to Spain, for pioneering the concept of the concentration camp
Henry James views the feckless adults in Maisie's life through the eyes of the child herself in What Maisie Knew
Adolph Ochs, a new proprietor of The New York Times, coins the slogan 'All the News That's Fit to Print'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes Women and Economics, developing the feminist theme in US cultural and political life
The National Consumers' League, headed by Florence Kelley, fights for improved conditions in the US factories making consumer goods
The US battleship Maine is blown up in Havana harbour, sparking off the Spanish-American War
The Hawaiian islands are made a US territory, five years after American involvement in the overthrow of the ruling dynasty
Theodore Roosevelt fights against the Spanish in Cuba with a volunteer regiment of cavalry, the Rough Riders
Joshua Slocum reaches Newport, Rhode Island, after sailing 46,000 miles to achieve the first solo voyage round the world
US basketball becomes a professional game with the establishment in Philadelphia of the National Basketball League
5-year-old Mary Pickford plays her first professional role on stage
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
The War of a Thousand Days begins in Colombia, causing eventually 100,000 deaths
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
Puerto Ricans are granted limited democracy in a bill of rigfhts introduced after two years of US military occupation
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
