Susan B. Anthony chooses Carrie Chapman Catt to succeed her
as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
The Boxer Rebellion breaks out in China.
August: Race riots erupt in New York City following a
murderous confrontation between a young African American man and a white
policeman.
Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, assassinates President William
McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
William Monroe Trotter establishes The Guardian, a Boston
newspaper dedicated to fighting racial discrimination and fostering political
action among black Americans.
Wilson becomes president of Princeton University.
Wilsonís father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, dies.
December 17: Wilbur and Orville Wright fly the first plane
capable of controlled flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
January 9: Revolution breaks out in Russia after Bloody Sunday
when czarist troops fire on marchers in St. Petersburg. The unrest ends three
centuries of autocratic rule by the House of Romanov.
Albert Einstein proposes his special theory of relativity (E=mc2).
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