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Events relating to america
Rubber brings prosperity to Manaus, thousands of miles up the Amazon
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
In the US presidential election William McKinley wins a second term on a simple platform, promising 'the full dinner pail'
Humbert I, the king of Italy, is assassinated by an Italian-American anarchist, Gaetano Bresci
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
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes US president on McKinley's death
Edith Wharton's publishes her first full-length novel, The Valley of Decision
Venezuela defaults on European interest payments and is soon threatened by British, German and Italian warships
US philosopher William James publishes his influential book The Varieties of Religious Experience
Alfred Stieglitz and other US photographers launch the Photo-Secession movement
