French scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.
The Treaty of Paris was signed.
The Titanic of New England, the SS Portland, sunk off the coast of Maine.
The largest music fraternity in the USA, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, was founded.
Machine guns were used for the first time in a battle in Omdurman, Sudan, Afric
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was incorporated.
Caleb Bradham's beverage 'Brad's Drink' was renamed 'Pepsi-Cola.'
Edwin Prescott was awarded a patent for the vertical loop Roller Coaster.
Carl Gustav Witt discovered the first near-Earth asteroid, 433 Eros.
