See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 4 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
January 5 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a type of
radiation later known as X-rays.
January 12 - H.L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph.
January 18 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
February 1 - The opera La Bohème premieres (Turin).
February 11 - Oscar Wilde's play Salomé premieres in Paris.
March 1 - With the Battle of Adowa, Ethiopia defended its independence from Italy.
Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Canada's sixth prime minister.
May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever
filmed. One thousand spectators crushed to death in Khodynskoe Fields during
coronation celebrations.
May 18 - The U.S. Supreme Court announces its decision in the infamous case
Plessy v. Ferguson.
May 26 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
July 9 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister.
August 16 - George Carmack discovers gold in the Klondike.
November - William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential
election.
Nepalese archaeologists rediscover the great stone pillar of Ashoka at Lumbini, using
Fa Xian's records.
Births:
January 2 -
Dziga Vertov, filmmaker.
January 4 -
Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969).
January 12 -
Wouter van Gammeren.
January 12 -
Rex Ingram, director and actor (d. 1950).
January 14 -
Martin Niemöller, German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984).
January 14 -
John Dos Passos, author (d. 1970).
January 16 -
Hendrika Bertha Kalis.
January 23 - Grand Duchess
Charlotte of Luxembourg.
January 29 -
Klara Adriana van den Houten.
February 11 -
Jan van den Houten.
February 11 -
Else Lasker-Schuler, writer.
February 18 -
André Breton, poet, principal theoretician of surrealism (d. 1966).
March 12 - Sir
John Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada.
March 18 -
Jacoba van den Houten.
March 20 -
Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, world war 1 ace.
March 29 -
Wilhelm Ackermann, mathematician.
April 30 -
Gary Davis, reverend.
May 11 -
Mari Sandoz, writer (d. 1966).
May 30 -
Howard Hawks, director (d. 1977).
June 19 -
Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor.
June 25 -
Johanna Cornelia Hanson.
July 9 -
Allegonda Helena van den Houten.
July 13 -
Hubert Nicolaas Henri Mertens.
July 16 -
Trygve Lie, the first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968).
August 16 -
Nicholas Koert.
August 18 -
Thomas Roos.
August 18 -
Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy" (d. 1933).
August 30 -
Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983).
September 4 -
Maria Lemson.
September 12 -
Jan Tieleman.
October 1 -
Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951).
October 28 -
Howard Hanson, composer.
October 31 -
Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977).
November 1 -
Dingeman Dalebout.
November 4 -
Anna Bedee.
November 8 -
Marinus van den Houten.
November 30 -
Aagje Kleijn.
December 6 -
Ira Gershwin, lyricist.
December 14 -
George VI Windsor, father of Elizabeth II.
December 14 -
Jimmy Doolittle, American World War II General..
December 20 -
Jacoba Ligtvoet.
December 24 -
F Scott Fitzgerald, American writer.
Johanna van den Houten.
Deaths:
January 8 -
Paul Verlaine, lyric poet.
February 25 -
Jan van den Houten.
May 20 -
Clara Schumann, Austrian composer.
July 28 -
Margaret Catherina Troast.
August 10 -
Otto Lilienthal, aviation pioneer.
August 24 -
Josina Arnoldi.
September 2 -
Gerbrand van den Houten.
October 11 -
Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer.
October 25 -
Johannes de Voogd.
October 25 -
Maria Lemson.
December 10 -
Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize.
December 29 -
Jan Verschoor.
December 30 -
José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines.
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