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The US Supreme Court rules in Plessey v. Ferguson that it is legal for a state to provide 'separate but equal' facilities for blacks
Canada's first French-speaking and Roman Catholic premier, Wilfrid Laurier, wins the first of four consecutive spells as premier
French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel discovers in uranium salt the phenomenon of natural radioactivity
US engineer Henry Ford test-drives his first four-wheel internal-combustion vehicle, the Quadricycle, built in a coal shed behind his home
Theodor Herzl publishes The Jewish State, calling for a national homeland for all Jews
Britain unites Buganda and three other kingdoms into the single Uganda Protectorate
The Dutch House is acquired by Kew Gardens and a few years later is opened to the public
The first modern Olympic Games, organized by Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens
Otto Lilienthal dies when a wing fractures on his glider and he crashes from a height of 17 metres
Jean Sibelius's 'symphonic legend' The Swan of Tuonela has its premiere in Helsinki
Reports of gold in what becomes known as Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike, prompt a massive gold rush into the Yukon
Italy, one of the local colonial powers, accepts Ethiopia's claim to the Ogaden region of the Somali territory
English poet A.E. Housman publishes his first collection, A Shropshire Lad
Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg (but is well received two years later in Moscow)
Republican candidate William McKinley wins the US presidential election, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan
22-year-old Guglielmo Marconi takes out a patent in Britain for the invention of radio
The Duc D'Orleans, who had been born at York House in 1869, buys the house and makes major alterations. These include a new east wing housing a museum and swimming pool, and walling the riverside grounds.
The Spanish governor in Cuba is recalled to Spain, for pioneering the concept of the concentration camp
Jewish composer Gustav Mahler is baptized a Christian so as to be eligible to conduct the Vienna Opera
Camillo Golgi discovers the large organelle found in most eukaryotic cells, named after him in the following year as the Golgi Apparatus
Zululand, annexed by Britain in 1887, is now merged with the colony of Natal
Paul Kruger, prime minister of the Transvaal, forms an alliance with the other Boer republic, the Orange Free State
English physicist Joseph John Thomson, working at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, discovers the existence of the electron
The UK colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, appoints enthusiastic imperialist Alfred Milner as high commissioner in South Africa
Henry James views the feckless adults in Maisie's life through the eyes of the child herself in What Maisie Knew
