Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The
Hound of the Baskervilles.
Beatrix Potter wrote
Peter Rabbit.
Leon Trotsky escaped from a
Siberian prison and settled in
London.
National bankruptcy is announced in
Portugal.
The
U.S. gets perpetual control over the
Panama Canal. (But we gave it back later.)
John Steinbeck and
Erik Erikson were born.
The
Philippine-American War ends. (
IIRC, that was one that I don't think we should have been in in the first place,
IMO.)