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==Events==
* The [[North Carolina General Assembly]] incorporates the town of [[Manteo, North Carolina|Manteo]], which was originally laid out as the [[Dare County, North Carolina|Dare]] county seat in [[1870]].

===January===
* [[January 1]] - End of [[Spain|Spanish]] rule in [[Cuba]].
* January 1 - [[Queens]] and [[Staten Island, New York|Staten Island]] merge with [[New York City]].
* [[January 6]] - [[George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston|Lord Curzon]] becomes [[Viceroy of India]].
* [[January 10]] - [[Tau Kappa Epsilon]] fraternity is founded at [[Illinois Wesleyan University]] in [[Bloomington, Illinois]].
* [[January 17]] - [[United States]] takes possession of [[Wake Island]].
* [[January 19]] - [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]] is formed.
* [[January 21]] - [[Opel]] Motors opens for business.
* [[January 22]] - Leaders of six [[Australia]]n colonies meet in [[Melbourne]] to discuss confederation.
* [[January 24]] - [[Rubber heel]] patented by [[Humphrey O'Sullivan]]

===February===
* [[February 2]] - The [[Australia|Australian]] Premiers' Conference held in [[Melbourne]] agrees Australia's capital ([[Canberra]]) should be located between [[Sydney]] and Melbourne.
* [[February 4]] - [[Philippine-American War]] begins as hostilities break out in Manila.
* [[February 6]] - [[Spanish-American War]]: A peace treaty between the [[United States]] and [[Spain]] is ratified by the [[United States Senate]].
* [[February 14]] - [[Voting machine]]s are approved by the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] for use in federal [[election]]s.

===March===

[[Image:Aspirin.jpg|thumb|Aspirin]]

* [[March 1]] - in [[Afghanistan timeline 1896–1900|Afghanistan]] Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle.
* [[March 2]] - In [[Washington]] State, USA, [[Mount Rainier National Park]] is established.
* [[March 4]] - [[Cyclone]] ''Mahina'' sweeps in north of [[Cooktown]], [[Queensland]], with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
* [[March 6]] - [[Felix Hoffman]] patents [[Aspirin]].
* March 6 - [[Bayer]] registers [[aspirin]] as a trademark.
* [[March 20]] - At [[Sing Sing (prison)|Sing Sing]], [[Martha M. Place]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[electric chair]].

===June===
* [[June 22]]–[[June 27]] - the highest ever recorded cricket score, 628 not out, is made by [[A. E. J. Collins]].
* [[June 25]] - Three [[Denver, Colorado]] newspapers publish a story that the Chinese government under the [[Guangxu Emperor]] is going to demolish the [[Great Wall of China]] - later proved to be a fabrication.
* [[June 27]] The paperclip was invented by English entrepreneur Roger Malcolm Taylor.

===July===
*[[July 17]] - America's first [[juvenile court]] is established in [[Chicago]].
* July 17 - [[NEC Corporation]] is organized as the first [[Japan|Japanese]] joint venture with foreign capital.
* [[July 19]] - [[The Newsboys Strike]] takes place when the Newsies of New York, USA go on strike (strike lasts until August 2). [http://homepage.mac.com/jmar/newsies/history.html more info]
* [[July 29]] - The First Peace Conference ends with the signing of the [[Hague Convention]].

===September===

[[Image:Afrikaner commandos.JPG|thumb|140px|Boer [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]]s during the Second Boer War]]

* [[September 19]] - [[Alfred Dreyfus]] pardoned.

===October===
* [[October 11]] - [[Second Boer War]] begins: In [[South Africa]], a war between the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[Boers]] of the [[Transvaal]] and [[Orange Free State]] erupts.
* [[October 30]] [[Augusta, KY]] Augusta High School Building is completed. [[Augusta Methodist College]] shuts down.

===November===
*[[November 16]] - [[Lithuania|Lithuanian]] doctor, poet, and national hero [[Vincas Kudirka]] dies of [[tuberculosis]] at age 40.

===December===
* [[December 2]] - [[Philippine-American War]]: The [[Battle of Tirad Pass]], termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
* [[December 16]] [[Augusta, KY]] Augusta High School burns down due to a heating plant failure
* December 26 ? [[Battle of Mafeking]] begins.
* [[David Hilbert]] creates the modern concept of [[geometry]] with the publication of his book ''Grundlagen der geometrie''.
* [[Gordon Douglas]] is ordained as a [[Buddhist]] monk in [[Myanmar]]. He is the first westerner to be ordained in the [[Theravada]] tradition.

===Unknown Dates===

* [[International Council of Nurses]] is founded.
* [[San Pellegrino]] is first bottled.
* The significance of [[oracle bone|oracle bones]] is discovered.

==Births==
===January===
*[[January 7]] - [[Francis Poulenc]], French composer (d. [[1963]])
*[[January 11]] - [[Eva LeGallienne]], English actress (d. [[1991]])
*[[January 12]] - [[Paul Hermann Muller|Paul Hermann Müller]], Swiss chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1965]])
*[[January 15]] - [[Goodman Ace]], American actor, comedian, and writer (d. [[1982]])
*[[January 17]] - [[Al Capone]], American gangster (d. [[1947]])
* January 17 - [[Nevil Shute]], English author (d. [[1960]])
*[[January 30]] - [[Max Theiler]], South African virologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1972]])
===February===
*[[February 3]] - [[Doris Speed]], English actress (d. [[1994]])
* February 3 - [[Lao She]], Chinese author (d. [[1966]])
*[[February 6]] - [[Ramon Novarro]], Mexican actor (d. [[1968]])
*[[February 7]] - [[Earl Whitehill]], baseball player (d. [[1954]])
*[[February 15]] - [[Georges Auric]], French composer (d. [[1983]])
*[[February 22]] - [[George O'Hara]], American actor (d. [[1966]])
* February 22 - [[Dechko Uzunov]], Bulgarian painter (d. [[1986]])
*[[February 23]] - [[Erich Kästner]], German writer (d. [[1974]])
*[[February 26]] - [[Max Petitpierre]], member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. [[1994]])
*[[February 27]] - [[Charles Best]], Canadian medical scientist (d. [[1978]])
===March===
*[[March 11]] - King [[Frederick IX of Denmark]] (d. [[1972]])
*[[March 13]] - [[John Hasbrouck van Vleck]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1980]])
*[[March 18]] - [[Jean Goldkette]], Greek-born musician (d. [[1962]])
*[[March 28]] - [[Harold B. Lee]], president of [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (d. [[1973]])
*[[March 29]] - [[Lavrenty Beria]], Soviet official (d. [[1953]])
===April===
*[[April 1]] - [[Gustavs Celmins]], Latvian fascist leader (d. [[1968]])
*[[April 7]] - [[Robert Casadesus]], French pianist (d. [[1972]])
*[[April 22]] - [[Vladimir Nabokov]], Russian-born writer (d. [[1977]])
*[[April 23]] - [[Bertil Ohlin]], Swedish economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1979]])
*[[April 24]] - [[Oscar Zariski]], Russian mathematician (d. [[1986]])
*[[April 27]] - [[Walter Lantz]], American cartoonist (d. [[1994]])
*[[April 29]] - [[Duke Ellington]], American jazz musician, bandleader (d. [[1974]])
===May===
*[[May 8]] - [[Friedrich Hayek]], Austrian economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1992]])
*[[May 10]] - [[Fred Astaire]], American singer, dancer, and actor (d. [[1987]])
* May 10 - [[Dimitri Tiomkin]], Ukrainian-born composer (d. [[1979]])
*[[May 12]] - [[Indra Devi]], Baltic-born yogi and actress (d. [[2002]])
*[[May 15]] - [[Jean-Etienne Valluy]], French general (d. [[1970]])
*[[May 24]] - [[Suzanne Lenglen]], French tennis player (d. [[1938]])
===June===
*[[June 1]] - [[Edward Charles Titchmarsh]], British mathematician (d. [[1963]])
*[[June 2]] - [[Lotte Reiniger]], German-born silhouette animator (d. [[1981]])
*[[June 3]] - [[Georg von Békésy]], Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1972]])
*[[June 12]] - [[Fritz Albert Lipmann]], American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1986]])
*[[June 13]] - [[Carlos Chávez]], Mexican composer (d. [[1978]])
*[[June 14]] - [[Yasunari Kawabata]], Japanese writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1972]])
*[[June 30]] - [[Harry Shields]], American jazz clarinettist (d. [[1971]])
===July===
* [[July 5]] - [[Marcel Achard]], French play and scriptwriter (d. [[1974]])
* [[July 7]] - [[George Cukor]], American film director (d. [[1983]])
* [[July 10]] - [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]], American actor (d. [[1936]])
* [[July 11]] - [[E. B. White]], American writer (d. [[1985]])
* [[July 14]] - [[Martha Mansfield]], American actress (d. [[1923]])
* [[July 15]] - [[Sean Lemass]], [[Taoiseach of Ireland]] (d. [[1971]])
* [[July 17]] - [[James Cagney]], actor (d. [[1986]])
* [[July 21]] - [[Hart Crane]], American poet (d. [[1932]])
* July 21 - [[Ernest Hemingway]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1961]])
* [[July 22]] - King [[Sobhuza II of Swaziland]] (d. [[1982]])
===August===
*[[August 4]] - [[Ezra Taft Benson]], president of [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (d. [[1994]])
*[[August 13]] - [[Alfred Hitchcock]], British film director (d. [[1980]])
*[[August 24]] - [[Jorge Luis Borges]], Argentine writer (d. [[1986]])
* August 24 - [[Albert Claude]], Belgian biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1983]])
===September===
*[[September 3]] - [[Frank Macfarlane Burnet]], Australian biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1985]])
*[[September 9]] - [[Brassaï]], French photographer (d. [[1984]])
* September 9 - [[Waite Hoyt]], baseball player (d. [[1984]])
*[[September 13]] - [[Corneliu Zelea Codreanu]], Romanian fascist politician, leader of the [[Iron Guard]] (d. [[1938]])
*[[September 21]] - [[Frederick Coutts]], the 8th General of [[The Salvation Army]] (d. [[1986]])
===October===
*[[October 1]] - [[Ernest Haycox]], American writer (d. [[1950]])
*[[October 19]] - [[Miguel Angel Asturias]], Guatemalan writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]])
===November===
* [[November 15]] - [[Avdy Andresson]], Estonian Minister of War in Exile (d. [[1990]])
* November 15 - [[Iskander Mirza]], first [[President of Pakistan]] (d. [[1969]])
* [[November 17]] - [[Douglas Shearer]], film sound engineer (d. [[1971]])
* [[November 18]] - [[Eugene Ormandy]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1985]])
===December===
* [[December 2]] - [[John Barbirolli]], English conductor (d. [[1970]])
* [[December 3]] - [[Hayato Ikeda]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1965]])
* [[December 9]] - [[Jean de Brunhoff]], French writer (d. [[1937]])
* [[December 15]] - [[Harold Abrahams]], British athlete (d. [[1978]])
* [[December 16]] - [[Noel Coward]], English actor, playwright, and composer (d. [[1973]])
* [[December 18]] - [[Peter Wessel Zapffe]], Norwegian author and philosopher (d. [[1990]])
* [[December 25]] - [[Humphrey Bogart]], American actor (d. [[1957]])
* [[December 28]] - [[Eugeniusz Bodo]], Polish actor (d. [[1943]])
* [[December 29]] - [[Nie Rongzhen]], Chinese Communist military leader (d. [[1992]])

===Unknown date===
* [[Friedrich Panse]], German psychiatrist (d. [[1973]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 23]] - [[Romualdo Pacheco]], Governor of California (b. [[1831]])
*[[February 6]] - [[Leo von Caprivi]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b [[1831]]
*[[February 16]] - [[Félix Faure]], [[President of France]] (b [[1841]])
*[[February 25]] - [[Paul Julius Reuter]], German-born news agency founder (b. [[1816]])
*[[March 6]] - [[Princess Kaiulani]] of [[Hawaii]], Last monarch of Hawaii. (b. [[1875]])
*[[June 3]] - [[Johann Strauss II|Johann Strauss, Jr.]], Austrian composer (b. [[1825]])
*[[June 10]] - [[Ernest Chausson]], French composer (b. [[1855]])
*[[July 21]] - [[Robert G. Ingersoll]], American politician (b. [[1833]])
*[[August 16]] - [[Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], German chemist (b. [[1811]])
*[[September 12]] - [[Cornelius Vanderbilt II]], American railway magnate (b. [[1843]])
*[[November 21]] - [[Garret A. Hobart]], 24th [[Vice President of the United States]] (b.[[1844]])
*[[November 24]] - [[Abdallahi ibn Muhammad]], Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b. [[1846]])
*[[December 10]] - King [[Ngwane V of Swaziland]] (b.[[1876]])
*[[December 22]] - [[Dwight L. Moody]], American evangelist (b. [[1837]])
*[[William Henry Webb]], American industrialist and philanthropist (b. [[1816]])

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SaikatMallick at 18:07, 26 April 2006