Marie and Pierre Curie announced their discovery of radium.
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, Africa.
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.
The US Navy claimed the island of Guam, which was previously under Spanish control.
American Astronomer William Henry Pickering discovered Phoebe, one of Saturn's moons.
The tone poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss premiered in Cologne, Germany.
