1. First long-distance
radio transmission, received by
Guglielmo Marconi.
2. Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, master of the
opera, dies.
3. First of the super mergers:
Andrew Carnegie sells his steel company for $492 million to
J.P. Morgan, who forms
U.S. Steel.
4. The
Victorian Age ends with the death of
Queen Victoria, the longest reigning
monarch in
British history.
5. The first
Nobel Prizes awarded on the fifth anniversary of
Alfred Nobel’s death.
6.
Pablo Picasso enters his
Blue Period.
7.
Britain completes the "
Lunatic Express," the
Uganda Railway.
8.
Thomas Mann’s first novel,
Buddenbrooks. Mann is 26.
9. US President
William McKinley assassinated.
10.
Australia becomes a nation.
11.
Rudyard Kipling, voice of the
British Empire, publishes his ode to
India, the novel
Kim.
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Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th century