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Events

January 1 - Australia is federated as an independent nation under an act of the British Parliament.
June 24 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso opens.
The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm
Baseball (US) : The American and National Leagues agree to peacefully coexist and organise a World Series between their champions, which would be first held in 1903.
Change of US presidency from William McKinley (1897-1901) to Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
- In September, President of the United States William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies eight days later. Theodore Roosevelt takes the Oath of Office.
December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."
Cleveland Indians founded
Europium discovered by Eugéne Demarcay
First prototype Harley-Davidson created
Okapi discovered (previously known only to local natives)
Katsura Taro becomes Prime Minister of Japan

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 * [[September 28]] - [[Ed Sullivan]], American TV show host
 * [[September 29]] - [[Enrico Fermi]], Italian physicist
-* [[November 3]] - [[Leopold III]], fourth king of [[Belgium]]
+* [[November 3]] - [[Leopold III of Belgium]], fourth king of [[Belgium]]
 * [[December 5]] - [[Werner Heisenberg]], German physicist
 * [[December 19]] - [[Rudolf Hell]], [[inventor]]