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A group including George Carmack and Skookum Jim Mason discovered gold near Dawson City, Canada, setting off the…
Philippine Revolution: In the Battle of San Juan del Monte, the first real battle of the war, a Katipunan force…
In response to a 28-percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on strike in Illinois, bringing rail
Swami Vivekananda (pictured) gave a speech introducing Hinduism on the opening day of the first Parliament of the…
Between 20 and 30 people were killed in the Liceu bombing, a terrorist attack by the Spanish anarchist Santiago…
The Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company was founded in Antwerp to exploit natural rubber in the Congo Free State.
At the Lick Observatory in California, Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea (pictured), a moon of Jupiter and…
Ida B. Wells (pictured) began publishing her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously…
Ida B. Wells (pictured) began publishing her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously…
Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada (pictured) was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironc
During a visit of the French Navy to Kronstadt in Russia, the two nations reached a secret agreement on a joint…
Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a…
At the encouragement of preservationist John Muir and writer Robert Underwood Johnson, the U.S. Congress established…
The Treaty of Wuchale was signed, ending the Italo-Ethiopian War, but differences in translation later led to another wa
The Treaty of Wuchale was signed, ending the Italo-Ethiopian War, but differences in translation later led to another wa
Bangui, the capital and largest city of the present-day Central African Republic, was founded in French Congo
Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city by area in the U
Brazilian emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca (pictured), while the country was…
The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., at the time the world's tallest building, officially opened to the…