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Events relating to north america
An observatory with a 100-inch reflecting telescope is set up by George Ellery Hale on Mount Wilson in California
Hughie Cannon writes the music and words for the song originally titled "He Done Me Wrong" in the US musical Frankie and Johnny
US architect Louis Sullivan completes the Schlesinger & Meyer Store (later known as the Carson, Pirie & Scott Store) in Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt wins the US presidental election in his own right
US inventor King C. Gillette receives a patent for a disposable safety razor
Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes the first of a great many recordings
US president Theodore Roosevelt announces the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, in response to crises in Latin America
The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London
Industrial Workers of the World (with its members later known as Wobblies) is founded in Chicago as a radical union initiative
US photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen set up the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in New York
David Belasco's play Girl of the Golden West has its premiere in New York, where it is seen two years later by Giacomo Puccini
Edith Wharton publishes the novel that brings her fame and fortune, The House of Mirth
US philosopher George Santayana publishes the first of the five volumes of his Life of Reason
President Thedore Roosevelt mediates a peace treaty in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, between Russia and Japan
Thomas Dixon's popular novel The Clansman presents the Ku Klux Klan in heroic terms
Percival Lowell predicts the existence of an unknown planet, almost exactly where Pluto is discovered 25 years later
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a hard-hitting novel about the Chicago meat-packing industry
Fire destroys much of San Francisco following the most violent earthquake in the city's history
In Charles Ives' composition The Unanswered Question the trumpet repeatedly asks 'the perennial question of existence'
The Pure Food and Drug Act, a landmark initiative in consumer protection, becomes law in the US
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, created by New Yorker J. Stuart Blackton, introduces the concept of the animated cartoon
Frank Lloyd Wright builds a Unity Temple for the Unitarians in Oak Park, now a suburb of Chicago
6-year-old Fred Astaire and his sister Adele give their first professional performance, in the pier theatre in Keyport, New Jersey
Roald Amundsen and his crew are the first to achieve the Northwest Passage, in a journey lasting three years in a 70-ft fishing boat
President Roosevelt wins a Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation between Russia and Japan
